03684nam 22006735 450 991073558720332120241120180325.03-031-23356-510.1007/978-3-031-23356-2(CKB)5580000000567215(MiAaPQ)EBC30670620(Au-PeEL)EBL30670620(DE-He213)978-3-031-23356-2(OCoLC)1396699398(EXLCZ)99558000000056721520230731d2023 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPoints of Entanglement in French Caribbean Travel Writing (1620-1722) /by Christina Kullberg1st ed. 2023.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2023.1 online resource (255 pages)Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700,2634-59003-031-23355-7 1. Introduction -- 2. Archipelagos -- 3. Constructing the Self between Worlds -- 4. Other tongues -- 5. Conclusion...or Alternative Beginnings. .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. .Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700,2634-5900European literature—Renaissance, 1450-1600Latin American literatureEuropean literatureImperialismFrance—HistoryEarly Modern and Renaissance LiteratureLatin American/Caribbean LiteratureEuropean LiteratureImperialism and ColonialismHistory of FranceEuropean literature—Renaissance, 1450-1600.Latin American literature.European literature.Imperialism.France—History.Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.Latin American/Caribbean Literature.European Literature.Imperialism and Colonialism.History of France.840.9004Kullberg Christina1973-799387MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910735587203321Points of Entanglement in French Caribbean Travel Writing (1620-1722)3554001UNINA