The Nineteenth-Century Roots of Postcolonial Caribbean Discourse: Transnationalism and Anticolonialism in Creole Recitations

About This Research

Dr. Ifeoma Nwankwo discusses the work of Faith Smith, Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean, which is one of a very limited source of book-length studies of a nineteenth century Caribbean-based British Caribbean black intellectual. Nwankwo specifically notes how Creole Recitations draws attention to the “mechanics of Anglophone Afro-Caribbean intellectual formation, self-representation, and epistemology posited in newspapers, nonfiction books, and speeches produced in the Caribbean” during the nineteenth century. The text, Nwankwo further details, allows for a better grasp on the ways in which Afro-Caribbean intellectuals have made the decision of when and how to invoke or not invoke or create “local roots and global routes in their fight for equality and freedom.”

Link: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/446636