Points of Entanglement in French Caribbean Travel Writing (1620-1722).

• Superior document: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700 Series
• Author: Kullberg, Christina.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700 Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (255 pages)

Table of Contents

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.