Placing Enlightened Critique: The Trans-Caribbean Periodical Press, Manuscript Authorship, and Imperial Conflicts between the 18th and 19th Centuries

Join us for the work-in-progress talk by Kevin Sedeño-Guillén, 2024-25 Richard E Greenleaf Fellow at the Latin American Library.

Placing Enlightened Critique: The Trans-Caribbean Periodical Press, Manuscript Authorship, and Imperial Conflicts between the 18th and 19th Centuries

The talk analyzes how the interactions and displacements of periodicals, newspapers, manuscript books, and their authors and agents, configured systematic translinguistic, transcolonial and transimperial connections and networks that contributed to the development of trans-Caribbean histories of enlightened criticism in the Spanish-speaking, English-speaking and French-speaking Caribbean between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Kevin Sedeño-Guillén is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cartagena in Colombia. He received his PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Kentucky, 2017. He specializes in Latin American and Caribbean colonial studies with a focus on the 18th and 19th centuries. He serves as co-editor of the scholarly journal Cuadernos de Literatura de Hispanoamérica y el Caribe. He is the author of Modernidades contra-natura: Crítica ilustrada, prensa periódica y cultura manuscrita en el siglo XVIII americano (De Gruyter, 2024) and co-editor of La narrativa de Mayra Montero: hacia una literatura transnacional caribeña (Aduana Vieja, 2008).