Creole America
Subtitle: the West Indies and the formation of literature and culture in the new republic
By: Sean X. Goudie.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780812239300
Subjects: 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 -- Civilization -- West Indian influences; West Indies -- In literature
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.