Beyond Boundaries
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abolition-era writings
African-derived worldviews
Afro-Caribbean intellectuals
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Caribbean literary heritage
Caribbean moral philosophy
Caribbean philosophical discourse
Caribbean print culture
carnival aesthetics
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colonial-era storytelling
Creole linguistic traditions
cross-cultural religious influences
cultural hybridity in literature
cultural identity formation
cultural nationalism
cultural negotiation in literature
cultural resistance narratives
early anticolonial commentary
early Black authors
early Caribbean fiction
emergence of local voice
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evolution of Caribbean identity
foundations of Caribbean scholarship
Hindu cultural presence
historical memory in island writing
historical narrative analysis
identity-building through na
indigenous authorship
Indo-Caribbean heritage
intellectual currents in the West Indies
Islamic dramatic traditions
island diaspora studies
island-based intellectual traditions
legacy of colonial education
literary genealogies
literary recovery projects
nineteenth-century narrative traditions
postcolonial literary foundations
proto-modern Caribbean authors
proto-nationalist writing
race consciousness movements
racialized portrayals in early texts
regional imaginative traditions
regional storytelling practices
resistance literature
self-determination movements
shaping of communal identity
transatlantic histories
Trinidadian cultural history
understudied Caribbean texts
vernacular language debates
West Indian social thought
writers of the Lesser Antilles
Product details
- ISBN 9781558493919
- Weight: 570g
- Dimensions: 158 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Feb 2003
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The first survey of writings on nineteenth-century Trinidad and Tobago; When V. S. Naipaul received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001, the award marked the culmination of a literary tradition that was almost two hundred years in the making. The island nation of Trinidad and Tobago has produced such important writers and thinkers as C. L. R. James, J. J. Thomas, Eric Williams, Oliver Cromwell Cox, Sylvester Williams, George Padmore, Earl Lovelace, Arnold Rampersad, and Merle Hodge. Yet this literary legacy is not well known, particularly with respect to works dating from the nineteenth century. Beyond Boundaries traces the development of the country's literary and intellectual history from the ""Narrative of Louisa Calderon"" (1803) to Stephen Cobham's Rupert Gray: A Tale of Black and White (1907). Selwyn R. Cudjoe examines a wide range of narratives by and about the people of Trinidad and Tobago, from treatises in the natural sciences, to journals and memoirs, histories, slave narratives, travelers' accounts, poems, stories, novels, theatrical works, and writings in the popular press. Along the way, he discusses such seminal works as Jean Baptiste Philippe's Free Mulatto (1824) and Maxwell Philip's Emmanuel Appadocca (1854), the first indigenous novel. He explores books that shed light on ideological processes, such as J. J. Thomas's The Theory and Practice of Creole Grammar (1869) and Froudacity (1899). He examines how notions of savagery and civilization were deployed in the writings of the dominant class to stymie the growing self-awareness of the colonized. And he traces the rise of racial pride and nationalist sentiments among Indo- and Afro-Trinidadians. Cudjoe demonstrates how Enlightenment concepts, English literature, African philosophy, Hindu theology, Islamic passion plays, and the culture of carnival all contributed to this body of ideas to create a vibrant literature, which in turn helped to shape a national identity.
Selwyn R. Cudjoe is professor of Africana studies at Wellesley College and author of Resistance and Caribbean Literature and V. S. Naipaul: A Materialist Reading, among other works.
