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Beyond Boundaries: The Intellectual Tradition of Trinidad and Tobago in the Nineteenth Century

Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe

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The first survey of writings on nineteenth-century Trinidad and Tobago; When V. S. Naipaul received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001, the award marked the culmination of a literary tradition that was almost two hundred years in the making. The island nation of Trinidad and Tobago has produced such important writers and thinkers as C. L. R. James, J. J. Thomas, Eric Williams, Oliver Cromwell Cox, Sylvester Williams, George Padmore, Earl Lovelace, Arnold Rampersad, and Merle Hodge. Yet this literary legacy is not well known, particularly with respect to works dating from the nineteenth century. Beyond Boundaries traces the development of the country's literary and intellectual history from the Narrative of Louisa Calderon to Stephen Cobham's Rupert Gray: A Tale of Black and White . Selwyn R. Cudjoe examines a wide range of narratives by and about the people of Trinidad and Tobago, from treatises in the natural sciences, to journals and memoirs, histories, slave narratives, travelers' accounts, poems, stories, novels, theatrical works, and writings in the popular press. Along the way, he discusses such seminal works as Jean Baptiste Philippe's Free Mulatto

Language: English

Pages: 393

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press

Release: February 01, 2003

ISBN: 1558493182

ISBN 13: 9781558493186

Beyond Boundaries: The Intellectual Tradition of Trinidad and Tobago in the Nineteenth Century

Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe

0/5 ( ratings)

The first survey of writings on nineteenth-century Trinidad and Tobago; When V. S. Naipaul received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001, the award marked the culmination of a literary tradition that was almost two hundred years in the making. The island nation of Trinidad and Tobago has produced such important writers and thinkers as C. L. R. James, J. J. Thomas, Eric Williams, Oliver Cromwell Cox, Sylvester Williams, George Padmore, Earl Lovelace, Arnold Rampersad, and Merle Hodge. Yet this literary legacy is not well known, particularly with respect to works dating from the nineteenth century. Beyond Boundaries traces the development of the country's literary and intellectual history from the Narrative of Louisa Calderon to Stephen Cobham's Rupert Gray: A Tale of Black and White . Selwyn R. Cudjoe examines a wide range of narratives by and about the people of Trinidad and Tobago, from treatises in the natural sciences, to journals and memoirs, histories, slave narratives, travelers' accounts, poems, stories, novels, theatrical works, and writings in the popular press. Along the way, he discusses such seminal works as Jean Baptiste Philippe's Free Mulatto

Language: English

Pages: 393

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press

Release: February 01, 2003

ISBN: 1558493182

ISBN 13: 9781558493186

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