{"product_id":"creole-america-9780812239300","title":"Creole America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInnovative in its scope and conceptual frameworks, Creole America reveals how literary culture in the New Republic is formed by a push for commercial empire in the hemisphere via the routes of the treacherous West Indian trades and, in turn, aestheticizes U.S.-West Indian relations as an integral aspect of the national imaginary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCreole America\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling and original work that makes a major contribution to the current critical effort to remap the cultural and literary terrain of America from a transnational perspective. . . . Goudie gives us many wonderfully rich readings and insights, which as a whole will make it impossible to think of early American culture separate from its Caribbean connections.\" * Amy Kaplan, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This startling book brings more fully to light the hold that the West Indies had on the American imagination in the era of the new republic and, as such, moves away from an idea of American exceptionalism to one of conflicted, trans-Caribbean notions of identity that affect the production of texts in a variety of genres: nonfiction prose, novel, poetry, and drama. . . . Refreshingly new and provocative.\" * Jeffrey H. Richards, author of \u003ci\u003eDrama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Goudie opens new doors in his compelling treatment of transnational and transcultural conflict. Based on extensive archival research, and including both historical and analytical frames of reference, this book studies the emergence of an enduring creole complex in America and the Caribbean in the years following the Revolutionary War.\" * MLA award citation *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: \"Our nation is a Caribbean Nation\": The West Indies and Early U.S. America\u003cbr\u003e PART 1: PARACOLONIALISM AND THE NEW REPUBLIC'S CREOLE COMPLEX\u003cbr\u003e 1. Locating the Prenational Origins of Paracolonialism and the Creole Complex: Benjamin Franklin's Late Colonial Encounters with the West Indies\u003cbr\u003e 2. Alexander Hamilton and a U.S. Empire for Commerce\u003cbr\u003e PART 2: WRITING THE CREOLE REPUBLIC\u003cbr\u003e 3. Paracolonial Ambivalence in the Poetics of Philip Freneau\u003cbr\u003e 4. The West Indies, Commerce, and a Play for U.S. Empire: Recovering J. Robinson's The Yorker's Stratagem (1792)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Charles Brockden Brown's West Indian Specie(s)\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: The Afterlife of Cora Munro\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405712597335,"sku":"9780812239300","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812239300.jpg?v=1730493369","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/creole-america-9780812239300","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}