Creole America: the West Indies and the formation of literature and culture in the new republic

Abstract

Introduction: Our nation is a Caribbean Nation: The West Indies and Early U.S. America PART 1: PARACOLONIALISM AND THE NEW REPUBLIC'S CREOLE COMPLEX 1. Locating the Prenational Origins of Paracolonialism and the Creole Complex: Benjamin Franklin's Late Colonial Encounters with the West Indies 2. Alexander Hamilton and a U.S. Empire for Commerce PART 2: WRITING THE CREOLE REPUBLIC 3. Paracolonial Ambivalence in the Poetics of Philip Freneau 4. The West Indies, Commerce, and a Play for U.S. Empire: Recovering J. Robinson's The Yorker's Stratagem (1792) 5. Charles Brockden Brown's West Indian Specie(s) Afterword: The Afterlife of Cora Munro Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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