Early African Caribbean Newspapers as Archipelagic Media in the Emancipation Age /

Early African Caribbean Newspapers as Archipelagic Media in the Emancipation Age / / Johanna Seibert.

This book sheds light on the archipelagic relations of two African Caribbean newspapers in the early decades of the nineteenth century and analyzes their medium-specific interventions in the struggle for emancipation and on a white-dominated communication market.

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Superior document:Studies in Periodical Cultures
VerfasserIn:
Seibert, Johanna,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
©2023
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies in Periodical Cultures.
Physical Description:1 online resource (330 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on the Text
  • Illustrations
  • Maps
  • Figures
  • Introduction: Mediating Emancipation: The Weekly Register and The Jamaica Watchman as Archipelagic Agents of Communication
  • 1 Imaginations of Early Caribbean Newspapers
  • 2 Periodical Studies and the Archipelago
  • 3 Sites of Editorship and Periodical Materiality
  • 1 The Business of Communication
  • 1 Newspaper Markets under Archipelagic Conditions
  • 2 Island Communities and the Local Ties of the Register
  • 3 The Watchman and the Periodical Infrastructures of White Humanitarianism
  • 2 Formats and Layouts in Motion
  • 1 Materiality and the Insignificant Significance of the Register
  • 2 The Transformative Designs of the Watchman
  • 3 Newspaper Formats and Archive Building
  • 3 Personhood and the Poetry Column
  • 1 Poems and Periodical Cultures in the British Caribbean
  • 2 Christmas Book Poems
  • 3 Concubinage and Sentimental Verse
  • 4 West Indian Worthies: Richard Hill and John Boyd
  • 5 Satirical Interjections
  • 4 Recording the Cycles of Black Rebellion
  • 1 Miscellanies of Haiti: "Madame Christophe" and the Logic of the Final Page
  • 2 Sketching Independent Haiti: Richard Hill's Multi-mode Auto-ethnography
  • 3 Editorial Voices on the Turner Rebellion
  • 4 Corresponding Samuel Sharpe's Confessions
  • Conclusion: The Trajectories of African Caribbean Periodicals
  • Works Cited
  • Index of Names and Subjects
  • Index of Sources.

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