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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
I Introduction
I.1 The Colonial Kaleidoscope of the Caribbean
I.2 Premises
I.3 Colonial Dynamics in the Caribbean (1789–1886)
I.4 Debates over Abolition in France and Spain
I.5 Issues of Conviviality
II Literature and the Colonial Question
II.1 Notions of Citizenship (Citoyenneté/Ciudadanía) on the Eve of Independence
II.2 Between Francophilia and Attempts at Autonomy: The Formation of Postcolonial Theory and the Nineteenth Century
II.3 Spatial Dynamics and Colonial Positioning
III Literary Snapshots of the In-Between
III.1 The Creole Upper Class
III.2 The Conceptual Inadequacy of the Terms patrie/Nation/Exile
III.3 Haiti As an In-Between Culture
III.4 Transfers of Ideas between the Center and the Colony
III.5 The In-Between and the Figure of the Mulatto
III.6 The Island Function, or between Nature and Culture
III.7 Between Trans-Tropical Dimensions: Xavier Eyma and the Philippines
III.8 Between Literature and the Natural Sciences
III.9 Digression: Sugar and Skin Color between Metropolis and Colonial Projection
IV Processes of Ethnological Circulation
IV.1 “Labeling People”: Discourses of “Race” in France and Spain
IV.2 The Revue des Colonies as a Transfer Medium Within a French-Speaking Colonial Diaspora
IV.3 Haiti and the Revue encyclopédique
IV.4 Literary Transfer Processes in the Revue des deux mondes
IV.5 Conclusion
V The Imperial Dimension of French Romanticism: Asymmetrical Relationalities
V.1 Towards Madrid or Paris?
V. 2 The Dominant Reception of French Romanticism
V. 3 Variations of Reception
V. 4 Hugo as a Model
V. 5 Chateaubriand as a Model
V. 6 The Reception of French Romanticism and Its Cultural-Hegemonic Consequences
V.7 Conviviality and Relationalism in the French Colonial Empire: A Transoceanic Comparison
VI Transcaribbean Dimensions: New Orleans as the Center of French-speaking Circulation Processes
VI.1 France and Spain as Colonial Powers in Louisiana
VI.2 Caribbean Louisiana
VI.3 Les Cenelles: Writing in the In-Between
VII Excursus: Paradigm Change within Historical Caribbean Research and Its Narrative Representation
VII.1 Reading Gómez de Avellaneda with Maryse Condé
VII.2 Raphaël Confiant
VII.3 Khal Torabully
VII.4 J.-M.G. Le Clézio, Édouard Glissant, and Epeli Hau’Ofa: Avant-Gardes in Oceania
VIII Knowledge about Conviviality, or on the Relevance of Research into the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
VIII.1 Norms of Knowledge about Conviviality: Utopias of Caribbeanness
VIII.2 Forms of Knowledge about Conviviality. An Ethnographic Quest, or the Question of Distance and Separation from the Other
VIII.3 The Rejection of Essentialist Models of Identity
IX Conclusion
X Works Cited
X.1 Primary Sources
X.2 Ethnological Journals
X.3 Secondary Literature
Afterword
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