Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Shows how travel writing can illustrate the intertwining of geography, archipelagic thinking, and colonialism
- Responds to a growing interest in the early modern Caribbean
- Investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings
Part of the book series: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700 (EMCSS)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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About this book
This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early colonial Caribbean by proposing theoretical linkages to contemporary Caribbean theories of creolization and archipelagic thinking. Using Édouard Glissant’s notion of points of entanglement, Christina Kullberg claims that the historical, social, and political messiness of the Caribbean seventeenth century make for complex representations and expressions, generating textual instability despite the travelers’ apparent desires to domesticate the islands. Taking a synoptic approach to travel narratives in French from 1620 up to the publication of Labat’s Nouveau voyage aux Isles de l’Amérique in 1722, Kullberg examines textual instances where the islands and the peoples of this period disrupt and unsettle dominant French narratives and enter productively into the construction of knowledge and the representations of the region. Kullberg’s contribution is to read French early modern travels in situ as shaped by the archipelagic geography, its history and social formations in order to interrogate both the construction and the limitations of discourses of power.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Christina Kullberg is Professor of French literature at Uppsala University, Sweden, and author of The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican Narratives: Exploring the Self and the Environment (2013) and Lire l’Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du Tertre: Exotisme et établissement aux Îles (2020). She has edited Vernaculars in an Age of World Literature (2022) together with David Watson, and Time and Temporalities in European Travel Writing (2021) with Paula Henrikson.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Points of Entanglement in French Caribbean Travel Writing (1620-1722)
Authors: Christina Kullberg
Series Title: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23356-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23355-5Published: 01 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23358-6Published: 01 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-23356-2Published: 31 July 2023
Series ISSN: 2634-5897
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5900
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 246
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Latin American/Caribbean Literature, European Literature, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of France