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Publisher: Macmillian Caribbean Publishing
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Who are the melancholy-looking horseman and boy making their way to an abandoned settlement as night and a tropical storm set in? The boy and the horse are swept away, and the stranger, a European, finds shelter in a cavewhere he finds disturbing signs of recent Obeah ceremonies. Then he encounters the Obeah man himself, the Hamel of the books title. So begins a novel very much in the Gothic tradition, its themes those of perverted faith, lust for power and self-aggrandizement, sexual desire for an innocent and virtuous woman, but set against the backdrop of slavery, black rebellion, and the rights of the white land-owning classes of Jamaica.
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Languages : en
Pages : 330
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ISBN: 9783628475443
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Languages : en
Pages : 327
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Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Author: Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813923727
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Examines the literatures of the Caribbean from an ecocritical perspective in all language areas of the region. This book explores the ways in which the history of transplantation and settlement has provided unique challenges and opportunities for establishing a sense of place and an environmental ethic in the Caribbean.
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Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Author: Evelyn O'Callaghan
Publisher: Caribbean Literature in Transi
ISBN: 1108475884
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 501
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This volume explores Caribbean literature from 1800-1920 across genres and in the multiple languages of the Caribbean.
Author: Candace Ward
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813940028
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Crossing the Line examines a group of early nineteenth-century novels by white creoles, writers whose identities and perspectives were shaped by their experiences in Britain’s Caribbean colonies. Colonial subjects residing in the West Indian colonies "beyond the line," these writers were perceived by their metropolitan contemporaries as far removed—geographically and morally—from Britain and "true" Britons. Routinely portrayed as single-minded in their pursuit of money and irredeemably corrupted by their investment in slavery, white creoles faced a considerable challenge in showing they were driven by more than a desire for power and profit. Crossing the Line explores the integral role early creole novels played in this cultural labor. The emancipation-era novels that anchor this study of Britain's Caribbean colonies question categories of genre, historiography, politics, class, race, and identity. Revealing the contradictions embedded in the texts’ constructions of the Caribbean "realities" they seek to dramatize, Candace Ward shows how these white creole authors gave birth to characters and enlivened settings and situations in ways that shed light on the many sociopolitical fictions that shaped life in the anglophone Atlantic.
