The Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies warmly invites you to the following seminar on Wednesday 12th March:
Peter Hulme, ‘A Message Delayed: the USA, Jamaica and Cuba (1898/1949)
Venue: Institute of Commonwealth Studies (Menzies Room)
Time: 5pm
Abstract:
As the USA was about to declare war on Spain in 1898, Jamaica was an important staging post for messages to the insurgents in Cuba both from the Cuban junta in New York and from the US government in Washington. This paper focuses on the repercussions of one particular message-the US "message to García"-which was delayed for a fortnight in Kingston in late April 1898.
Peter Hulme is Professor in Literature at the University of Essex. He is the author of Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797 (1986, paperback 1992) and Remnants of Conquest: The Island Caribs and Their Visitors, 1877-1998 (2000), and joint editor of Wild Majesty: Encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the Present Day (1992), Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory (1994), Cannibalism and the Colonial World (1998), 'The Tempest' and Its Travels (2000), and The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (2002). His current research project - supported by the AHRC - is American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography.
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