Creole America : the West Indies and the formation of literature and culture in the new republic / Sean X. Goudie.

• "Our nation is a Caribbean nation" : the west Indies and early U.S. America -- Locating the prenational origins of paracolonialism and the Creole complex : Benjamin Franklin's late colonial encounters with the West Indies -- Alexander Hamilton and the U.S. empire for commerce -- Paracolonial ambivalence in the poetics of Philip Freneau -- The West Indies, commerce, and a play for U.S. empire : recovering J. Robinson's The Yorker's stratagem (1792) -- Charles Brockden Brown's West Indian specie(s) -- The afterlife of Cora Munro.

• "Creole America reveals how literary culture in the New Republic period is formed not only by expansionist designs on the North American continent but also by a push for commercial empire in the hemisphere via the roots and routes of the West Indian trades." 
• "Across an array of genres and texts - state papers, empire tracts and political pamphlets, natural histories, autobiographies, lyric poetry, drama, and prose fiction - Goudie demonstrates how distinctions between U.S. and West Indian bodies and commodities blur amid ongoing U.S. participation in the treacherous West Indian trades. Creole America thus compels readers to come face-to-face with disturbing affiliations between U.S. and West Indian creole characters and cultures at the turn of the nineteenth century."--Jacket. 

Ämnesord

American literature  -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

American literature  -- West Indian influences. (LCSH)

Literature and society  -- United States -- History -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Colonies in literature.  (LCSH)

Kolonialismus <Motiv>  (swd)

Literatur.  (swd)

Kreolen. 

Literatur. 

Westindienbild. 

United States  -- Civilization -- 1783-1865. (LCSH)

United States  -- Civilization -- West Indian influences. (LCSH)

West Indies  -- In literature. (LCSH)

Westindien <Motiv>  (swd)

USA.  (swd)

Karibik. 

USA. 

Geschichte 1776-1810. 

Klassifikation

PS208 (LCC)

810.9/002 (DDC)

HT 1520 (rvk)