Emmanuel Appadocca; or, Blighted life
Author: Michel Maxwell Philip
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Published: 1854
Total Pages: 274
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Emmanuel Appadocca; Or, Blighted Life. A Tale of the Boucaneers
Author: Michel Maxwell Philip
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Published: 1854
Total Pages: 270
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmmanuel Appadocca, Or, Blighted Life
Author: Maxwell Philip
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781558490765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAppadocca is intent on wreaking revenge on his father for abandoning him and his mother. Through his anger, he sails the seas with a band of pirates on a ship named the Black Schooner. The text is enriched with Appadocca's reflections on nature, racism, slavery, colonialism and retribution.
Race in American Literature and Culture
Author: John Ernest
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-06-16
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 1108803016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the unsteady foundations of American literary history, Race in American Literature and Culture examines the hardening of racial fault lines throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth while considering aspects of the literary and interrelated traditions that emerged from this fractured cultural landscape. A multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in the American imagination, the book pushes debate in exciting new directions. Offering expert explorations of how the history of race has been represented and written about, it shows in what ways those representations and writings have influenced wider American culture. Distinguished scholars from African American, Latinx, Asian American, Native American, and white American studies foreground the conflicts in question across different traditions and different modes of interpretation, and are thus able comprehensively and creatively to address in the volume how and why race has been so central to American literature as a whole.
Contact Spaces of American Culture
Author: Petra Eckhard
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 3643504349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat do tent cities, basketball courts, slave ships, and Facebook have in common? They are spaces of American culture where an idea of 'Americanness' emerges through a concrete form of contact on the one hand and through its mediated representation on the other. This collection of essays examines these contact spaces - and their myriad and complex configurations of culture - along a spatial axis, highlighting the interconnectedness of the local and the global in concrete spaces of American culture, both inside and outside the US, and from the world wide web. One line of inquiry studies metaphors of contact, the other one reads media texts as contact spaces and investigates the role of mediation. (Series: American Studies in Austria - Vol. 12)
Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy
Author: Alexandra Ganser
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-08-11
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 3030436233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Open Access book, Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865, examines literary and visual representations of piracy beginning with A.O. Exquemelin’s 1678 Buccaneers of America and ending at the onset of the US-American Civil War. Examining both canonical and understudied texts—from Puritan sermons, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Red Rover, and Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” to the popular cross-dressing female pirate novelette Fanny Campbell, and satirical decorated Union envelopes, this book argues that piracy acted as a trope to negotiate ideas of legitimacy in the contexts of U.S. colonialism, nationalism, and expansionism. The readings demonstrate how pirates were invoked in transatlantic literary production at times when dominant conceptions of legitimacy, built upon categorizations of race, class, and gender, had come into crisis. As popular and mobile maritime outlaw figures, it is suggested, pirates asked questions about might and right at critical moments of Atlantic history.
The Trinidad and Tobago Yearbook
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 592
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe West Indian Novel and Its Background
Author: Kenneth Ramchand
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9766371512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of the emergence of the West Indian novel in English, this work provides valuable insights into the social, cultural and political background, offering concise and focused accounts of the growth of education, the development of literacy, and the formation of West Indian Creole languages.
Diaspora Pride - People, Places, and Things (V4)
Author: Indiana Robinson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-07-31
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 138713616X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a nation, we should preserve our social memory by honoring those who paved the way for us to exist, recognizing those who etched their indelible mark on our lives, and remembering those who went to the great beyond before us as expressed in the Salute to the Dearly Departed segment (People); our regions, areas, and territories; our locales, hotspots, and hangouts and places we love to visit and events we constantly attend in (Places), and the happenings and the things that we cherish to death - items, commodities, artifacts, and products (Things). So dear readers, enjoy the mind "triggers" and heart-wrenching "diggers" you will find in this book honouring the 55th year of celebrating Jamaica's independence and the tantalizing trip down memory lane with this unofficial reference/resource guide by your side. You will recollect who is who (people), where is where (places), and what is what (things) in both the Jamaican and the Diaspora/Global context.
Crossing the Line
Author: Candace Ward
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2017-08-17
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0813940028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrossing 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.
