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Crossroads of Colonial Cultures - Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution (Paperback, Digital original)
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Crossroads of Colonial Cultures - Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution (Paperback, Digital original)
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The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of
government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a
little investigated period of transition: from the French
Revolution to the abolition of slavery in Cuba (1789-1886). The
comparison of cultural transfer processes by means of literary
production from and about the Caribbean, embedded in a broader
context of the circulation of culture and knowledge deciphers the
different transculturations of European discourses in the colonies
as well as the repercussions of these transculturations on the
motherland's ideas of the colonial other: The loss of a culturally
binding centre in the case of the Spanish colonies - in contrast to
France's strong presence and binding force - is accompanied by a
multirelationality which increasingly shapes hispanophone Caribbean
literature and promotes the pursuit for political independence. The
book provides necessary revision to the idea that the 19th-century
Caribbean can only be understood as an outpost of the European
metropolises. Examining the kaleidoscope of the colonial Caribbean
opens new insights into the early processes of cultural
globalisation and questions our established concept of a genuine
western modernity. Updated and expanded translation of Die
koloniale Karibik. Transferprozesse in hispanophonen und
frankophonen Literaturen, De Gruyter (mimesis 53), 2012
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