Points of Entanglement in French Caribbean Travel Writing (1620-1722). - Kullberg, Christina (Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2023)
Intro -- Note on Translations -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Tracing Entanglements in the Seventeenth Century Caribbean -- Reading Through the Work of Silencing -- French New World Baroque -- A Brief History of a Successful Colonization -- The Early French Caribbean Corpus -- References -- Chapter 2: Navigating Archipelagos -- Representing and Thinking with Islands -- Naming Islands -- Mapping Islands -- Touring the Archipelago -- References -- Dictionaries -- Chapter 3: Constructing the Self Between Worlds -- Self as Mediator -- Experimental Self -- Commenting on Slavery -- Indigeneity and Style -- References -- Dictionaries -- Chapter 4: Other Tongues -- Plurilingual Caribbean -- Language Encounters -- Staging Speech -- Scenes of Exchanges -- References -- Chapter 5: Conclusion… or Alternative Beginnings -- References -- Author Index -- Place Index.
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