Creole America.(Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic)(Brief article)(Book review)

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Creole America

Sean X. Goudie

University Of Pennsylvania Press

3905 Spruce Steet, Philadelphia, PA 19104

081223930X $55.00 www.amazon.com

Creole America: The West Indies And The Formation Of Literature And Culture In The New Republic by Sean X. Goudie (English Department, Vanderbilt University) explores how literary culture in the New Republic era became framed amid a background of both expansionist desires of the North Ameri...

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