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- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920
- Caribbean Literature in Transition
- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Literary and Generic Transitions
- Part II Cultural and Political Transitions
- Part III The Caribbean Region in Transition
- Chapter 13 Antillean Sovereignty in Pan-Caribbean Writing
- Chapter 14 Caribbean Literature as Diasporic Archive
- Chapter 15 The Representation of the Caribbean in Nineteenth-Century African American Newspapers
- Chapter 16 The Impact of the American Civil War on Political Writing in Jamaica and Cuba
- Chapter 17 South Asian Migration and Settlement Stories, 1800–1920
- Chapter 18 Francophone–Anglophone Connections in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
- Chapter 19 Cuban Literature before 1920
- Chapter 20 José Martí, José Rizal, and Their Speculative Extended Caribbean
- Chapter 21 Translating the Revolution from Haiti to Louisiana
- Part IV Critical Transitions
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 14 - Caribbean Literature as Diasporic Archive
from Part III - The Caribbean Region in Transition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 December 2020
- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920
- Caribbean Literature in Transition
- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Literary and Generic Transitions
- Part II Cultural and Political Transitions
- Part III The Caribbean Region in Transition
- Chapter 13 Antillean Sovereignty in Pan-Caribbean Writing
- Chapter 14 Caribbean Literature as Diasporic Archive
- Chapter 15 The Representation of the Caribbean in Nineteenth-Century African American Newspapers
- Chapter 16 The Impact of the American Civil War on Political Writing in Jamaica and Cuba
- Chapter 17 South Asian Migration and Settlement Stories, 1800–1920
- Chapter 18 Francophone–Anglophone Connections in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
- Chapter 19 Cuban Literature before 1920
- Chapter 20 José Martí, José Rizal, and Their Speculative Extended Caribbean
- Chapter 21 Translating the Revolution from Haiti to Louisiana
- Part IV Critical Transitions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Waves of early twentieth-century Asian migration to the Caribbean and Afro-Caribbean migration to and from Panama bankrolled the education of a new black and brown middle class. This essay argues that we can hold more of the Caribbean literary tradition within a single frame if we reconfigure the archive so as to highlight the moments when the educational advances the concurrent migrations facilitated allowed both African and Asian Caribbean communities to exert greater control over the terms of their representation. It advances three approaches to rethinking Caribbean literary history. The first examines how early twentieth-century Caribbean fiction represents both groups’ changing attitudes towards money and modern subjectivity. The second considers how migrants’ counterintuitive investments in imperial expansion complicate the political stakes in Caribbean nationalist narratives. The third juxtaposes literary and non-literary forms of cultural production in Jamaica and Panama to demonstrate how, in privileging written texts, we obscure the contributions marginalized groups make to what we think of as national cultures.
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- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920 , pp. 231 - 246Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021