Caribbean Globalizations, 1492 to the Present Day

Eva Sansavior is Lecturer in French at the University of Limerick and the author of Maryse Condé and the Space of Literature (Legenda, 2012). Richard Scholar is Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages at Oriel College, Oxford. His previous books include The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something (OUP, 2005).

Prologue: Globalization, Globality, Globe-Stone - Patrick Chamoiseau
Introduction - Eva Sansavior and Richard Scholar

PART I. The Makings of Modernity
1. How Globalization invented Indians in the Caribbean - Patricia Seed
2. The Archipelago Goes Global: Late Glissant and the Early Modern Isolario - Richard Scholar
3. Precocious Modernity: Environmental Change in the Early Caribbean - Philip D. Morgan
4. ‘Slaves’ in My Family: French Modes of Servitude in the New World - Christopher L. Miller
5. Tobacco: The Commodification of the Caribbean and the Origins of Globalization - Guillaume Pigeard de Gurbert

PART II. The Complex Present
6. The Amaranth Paradigm: Amerindian Indigenous Glocality in the Caribbean - Judith Misrahi-Barak
7. Paradoxical Encounters: The Essay as a Space of Globalization in Montaigne’s ‘On the Cannibals’ and Maryse Condé’s ‘O Brave New World’ - Eva Sansavior
8. Race and Modernity in Hispaniola: Tropical Matters and Development Perspectives - David Howard
9. Aluminium: Globalizing Caribbean Mobilities, Caribbeanizing Global Mobilities - Mimi Sheller
10. Local, National, Regional, Global: Glissant and the Postcolonial Manifesto - Charles Forsdick
11. Tropical Apocalypse: Globalization and the Caribbean End Times - Martin Munro

Acknowledgements
Note on Contributors
Index