{"product_id":"creole-america-sean-x-goudie-9780812239300","title":"Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003eInnovative in its scope and conceptual frameworks, \u003ci\u003eCreole America\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how literary culture in the New Republic period is formed not only by expansionist designs on the North American continent but also by a push for commercial empire in the hemisphere via the roots and routes of the West Indian trades. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Washington's Secretary of the Treasury, the chief architect of the United States as an \"empire for commerce,\" West Indian immigrant Alexander Hamilton came to embody the great uneasiness that many Americans expressed about the unpredictable, and potentially disastrous, effects on the nation and national character of extensive relations between the slave colonies of the West Indies and the putatively free and democratic states of the independent mainland. Sean X. Goudie examines such anxiety and ambivalence as characteristic of what he provocatively terms the New Republic's \"creole complex.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcross an impressive array of genres and texts--state papers, empire tracts and political pamphlets, natural histories, autobiographies, lyric poetry, drama, and prose fiction--Goudie demonstrates how distinctions between U.S. and West Indian bodies and commodities blur amid ongoing U.S. participation in the treacherous West Indian trades. \u003ci\u003eCreole America\u003c\/i\u003e thus compels readers to come face-to-face with disturbing affiliations between U.S. and West Indian creole characters and cultures at the turn of the nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sean X. Goudie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081223930X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812239300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2006 pg. 311\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2006 pg. 646","brand":"Sean X. Goudie","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059807580415,"sku":"9780812239300","price":69.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fc8b0e21-a031-4b72-8cf2-ec344a78befa.jpg?v=1685060456","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/creole-america-sean-x-goudie-9780812239300","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}