Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index.
Contents
"Our nation is a Caribbean nation" : the west Indies and early U.S. America -- Locating the prenational origins of paracolonialism and the Creole complex : Benjamin Franklin's late colonial encounters with the West Indies -- Alexander Hamilton and the U.S. empire for commerce -- Paracolonial ambivalence in the poetics of Philip Freneau -- The West Indies, commerce, and a play for U.S. empire : recovering J. Robinson's The Yorker's stratagem (1792) -- Charles Brockden Brown's West Indian specie(s) -- The afterlife of Cora Munro.