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This study proposes to examine the historical ramifications of exoticism from a critical reading of the General History of the Antilles (1654 / 1667-71) written by the Dominican missionary, Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre. Proceeding from a literary analysis, our study suggests a reconfiguration of exoticism based both on contemporary theorizing and on the historical context and aesthetics of the time. Our work is therefore both theoretical by offering a critical analysis of the different orientations of exoticism; and historical, by presenting an in-depth reading of a work of considerable importance both for the history of French and West Indian literature and for the history of anthropology. In this regard, this study will also provide an exploration of the very first French colonization of the islands and how it was represented. This book examines the historical ramifications of the concept of exoticism through a literary analysis of Histoire générale des Antilles (1654 / 1667-71) written by Dominican missionary Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre.

Literature. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Literature: history & criticism --- Du Tertre, Jean Baptiste, --- West Indies, French --- History.

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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. .

Travel in literature. --- Voyages and travels in literature --- European 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. --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- European literature

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Reimagines the vernacular as a critical concept for rethinking world literatures.

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers --- Literary theory --- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography

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Native language. --- Language and culture. --- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers,Literary theory,Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography