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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 15 - The Representation of the Caribbean in Nineteenth-Century African American Newspapers
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
This essay examines the Caribbean as a conflicting node of representation in essays, editorials, stories, and poems in three newspapers owned by Fredrick Douglass and one part-owned by Jamaican John Russwurm that were published in the USA between 1827 and 1874. The shifting and contradictory nature of this representation, ranging from the emancipated Caribbean’s role as a beacon in a ‘discourse of humanity’, to endorsement of US annexation plans as empire solidified, are a direct function of the constriction or widening of African American material space during the period. The condition of being enslaved yielded a different Caribbean-ward affect from the condition of being freedpeople, and the condition of being freedpeople yielded yet a different affect as the dream of black citizenhood emerged in the US post-emancipation era. The trajectory was one of alienation which resonates in African American-Caribbean literary relations today. Reflections are invited on the rise of national imaginaries and literatures across the African diaspora.
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- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920 , pp. 247 - 261Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021