Dans Lire l’Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du Tertre, Christina Kullberg propose une étude de l’établissement français aux Antilles et une analyse théorique de l’exotisme à travers une lecture critique de l’histoire naturelle et morale du missionnaire dominicain Du Tertre. In Lire l’Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du Tertre, Christina Kullberg offers a study of the French early colonization in the Caribbean and a theoretical analysis of exoticism through a critical reading of Dominican missionary Du Tertre’s natural and moral history of the region.

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...