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Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean (New World Studies)
Faith L. Smith
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Description for Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean (New World Studies)
Paperback. This study of John Jacob Thomas (1841-1889) looks at the work of this leading member of the newly emergent intelligentsia in 19th century Trinidad. It puts his texts in context with other narratives by local and international Pan-Africanists and Victorian intellectuals. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ABM; 3JH; BG; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
John Jacob Thomas (1841-1889) was one of the leading members of a newly emergent intelligentsia in nineteenth-century Trinidad - a group that could be identified as both ""Victorian"" and ""Pan-Africanist"" - who not only challenged British imperialist accounts of Trinidad but also tried to show the interconnections, bloodlines, and origins of ""Caribbean"" and ""English"" identities usually perceived as separate and distinct. As a member of that emerging black lower middle class, Thomas was well known for his 1869 study of Trinidad's Creole language, as well as for Froudacity (1889), his pointed and witty response to the travel narrative of the ... Read more
John Jacob Thomas (1841-1889) was one of the leading members of a newly emergent intelligentsia in nineteenth-century Trinidad - a group that could be identified as both ""Victorian"" and ""Pan-Africanist"" - who not only challenged British imperialist accounts of Trinidad but also tried to show the interconnections, bloodlines, and origins of ""Caribbean"" and ""English"" identities usually perceived as separate and distinct. As a member of that emerging black lower middle class, Thomas was well known for his 1869 study of Trinidad's Creole language, as well as for Froudacity (1889), his pointed and witty response to the travel narrative of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
New World Studies
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813921433
SKU
V9780813921433
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About Faith L. Smith
Faith Smith is Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies and English and American Literature at Brandeis University.
Reviews for Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean (New World Studies)
The kind of intellectual biography/history that Smith provides - with scrupulous attention paid to earlier colonial history in addition to postcolonial politics - is rare in the canonical fields, let alone in the more recent domain of black studies. This work will create strong ripples in Caribbean studies, some of them usefully controversial. It will certainly change the face of ... Read more