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Author:

Goudie, Sean X.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

275 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--1783-1850--History and criticism.
American literature--West Indian influences.
Literature and society--United States--History--18th century.
Colonies in literature.
United States--Civilization--1783-1865
United States--West Indian influences.--West Indian influences.
West Indies--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-260) and index.

Contents:

"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.

ISBN:

081223930X
9780812239300
9780812239300 (acid-free paper)
081223930X (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)62282589

LCCN:

2005056360

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)