It was natural in the first nationalist stage of Caribbean writing to suggest that it began from nothing. That was true in the sense that those who wrote in the twentieth century had little idea of what had gone before. Now, as Kevyn Arthur's investigation of 18th century Barbadian newspapers and journals reveals, there was, existing side by side with slavery, a lively and heterogeneous literary world that begins to explore what it meant to be Barbadian. By the mid 1750s Barbados boasted a Society of Arts, an English ...
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It was natural in the first nationalist stage of Caribbean writing to suggest that it began from nothing. That was true in the sense that those who wrote in the twentieth century had little idea of what had gone before. Now, as Kevyn Arthur's investigation of 18th century Barbadian newspapers and journals reveals, there was, existing side by side with slavery, a lively and heterogeneous literary world that begins to explore what it meant to be Barbadian. By the mid 1750s Barbados boasted a Society of Arts, an English Society, a Music Society, and a Literary Society and two newspapers, Samuel Keimer's "Barbados Gazette" and "The Barbados Mercury" founded by Isaac Orderson in the 1750s. These newspapers contain much literary material. There are poems, satires, essays and letters in the style of the Spectator, and other materials that give a vivid picture of life at that time. It is, of course, a world seen from the perspective of the White slave-owning class, though there are tantalizing possibilities that at least some of those who wrote (much of the material is written under pen names) were of the free mulatto class. There are, for instance, the dialogues of Philo-Xylon on the legal rights of slaves, which are conceivably by a member of this group. Whilst much of the material draws on contemporary English models, though changed by transplantation to the Caribbean, there is 'Buddy Quou', probably the oldest (1787) extant poem in West Indian Creole. Volume 1 of Kevyn Arthur's rewarding collection of materials draws from the Barbados Samuel Keimer's miscellany, "Caribbeana", Volume 2 draws from the "Barbados Mercury" and the "Barbados Gazette". With an insightful introduction and a scholarly apparatus of explanatory notes, the two volumes of this collection gives an unrivalled view of eighteenth century Barbadian letters.
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