Empire of Neglect - The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Taylor Klappentext Christopher Taylor is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago.Christopher Taylor shows why nineteenth-century British West Indian letters were remarkably un-British by exploring how West Indians reoriented their affective, cultural, and political worlds toward the Americas in response to the liberalization of the British Empire and the resulting imperial neglect. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  ix Introduction  1 Part One: Managing Neglect 1. The Political Economy of Neglect  33 2. "Them Worthless Ones": Emancipatory Liberalism in Jamaica  72 Interregnum: Between Worlds 3. Imperial Abandonment and Hemispheric Alternatives  107 Part Two: Building New Worlds 4. Uncle Bolívar's Children  147 5. "A Purely 'Mercial Transaction"  187 Coda. Americas That Were and Americas to Come  229 Notes  239 Bibliography  275 Index  301

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Taylor
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780822371045
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-7104-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Radical Americas; Radical Americas; Radical Américas
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies