Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777
Although the colonies in the West Indies were as important to the expanding British empire as those in North America, writings from the British West Indies have been conspicuously absent from anthologies of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature. In this first literary anthology dedicated to the region, Thomas W. Krise gathers important but little-known descriptions, poems, narratives, satires, and essays written in and about this culturally rich and politically tempestuous...
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Although the colonies in the West Indies were as important to the expanding British empire as those in North America, writings from the British West Indies have been conspicuously absent from anthologies of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature. In this first literary anthology dedicated to the region, Thomas W. Krise gathers important but little-known descriptions, poems, narratives, satires, and essays written in and about this culturally rich and politically tempestuous region. Caribbeana offers invaluable period commentaries on slavery, colonialism, gender relations, African and European history, natural history, agriculture, and medicine. Highlights include several of the earliest protests against slavery; a superb ode by the Cambridge-educated Afro-Jamaican poet Francis Williams; James Grainger's extended georgic poem, The Sugar Cane; Frances Seymour's poignant tale of the Englishman Inkle who sells his Indian savior-lover Yarico into slavery; and several descriptions of the West Indies during the early years of settlement.BooknewsKrise (English, Air Force Humanities Institute, U.S. Air Force Academy) presents a collection of descriptions, satires, poems, narratives, and essays written in and about the British colonies of the West Indies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
AcknowledgmentsA Note on the TextIntroduction11From A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados (1657)162From Jamaica Viewed (1661)313From Friendly Advice to the Gentlemen-Planters of the East and West Indies (1684)514A Trip to Jamaica (1698)775A Speech Made by a Black of Guardaloupe (1709)936The Speech of Moses Bon Saam (1735)1017From The Speech of Mr. John Talbot Campo-bell (1736)1088The Story of Inkle and Yarico and An Epistle from Yarico to Inkle, After he had left her in Slavery (1738)1419Poems from Caribbeana (1741)14710The Sugar Cane: A Poem, In Four Books (1764)16611From A General Description of the West-Indian Islands (1767)26112"Carmen, or, an Ode," in Edward Long's A History of Jamaica (1774)31513From Jamaica, a Poem, In Three Parts (1777)326Notes341
\ BooknewsKrise English, Air Force Humanities Institute, U.S. Air Force Academy presents a collection of descriptions, satires, poems, narratives, and essays written in and about the British colonies of the West Indies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR booknews.com\ \ \ \ \ Tony GibbsTo many Englishmen of the later 17th and early 18th centuries, the West Indies was a place in transition, part literary fantasy and part hard reality. Both aspects are liberally represented in Caribbeana an anthology of literature from and about the islands, edited by Thomas W. Krise. A professor of English who grew up in St. Thomas, USVI, Krise brings a careful critical sense to his selection. He includes early examples of travel writing, the often noted but seldom printed epic poem of interracial love and betrayal "The Story of Inkle and Yarico," and attacks on and a defense of slavery, possibly written by slaves. What's striking to the present-day reader is how much of the material, composed three centuries ago and more, is pertinent today. \ —Islands Magazine\ \
