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Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean

Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean

Smith, Faith L.

Hardcover

Series: New World Studies

Caribbean HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0813921422
ISBN13: 9780813921426
Publisher: Univ Of Virginia Pr
Published: Dec 29 2002
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.48
Language: English

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 Victorian James Anthony Froude, an early example of writing back to empire.

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