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Kulturtheoretische Versuche, ein Zusammenleben in Frieden und Differenz programmatisch zu fassen, spielen im begonnenen 21. Jahrhundert eine entscheidende Rolle. Als aufschlussreich stellen sich hierbei die Konzepte der »Kreolisierung« und des »Tout-monde« des karibischen Romanciers Édouard Glissant oder die »Coolitude« des aus Mauritius stammenden Dichters Khal Torabully dar. Sie verweisen auf multiethnische Gesellschaften kolonialen Ursprungs und formulieren eine prominente - in Deutschland aber bislang kaum wahrgenommene - postkoloniale Kulturkritik der Globalisierung und Moderne.Die Beiträge in diesem Band, u.a. von Ottmar Ette, Françoise Vergès und Khal Torabully, prüfen die Anschlussfähigkeit von historischen und aktuellen Kreolisierungsprozessen für internationale und europäische Debatten.

The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a little investigated period of transition: from the French Revolution to the abolition of slavery in Cuba (1789–1886). The comparison of cultural transfer processes by means of literary production from and about the Caribbean, embedded in a broader context of the circulation of culture and knowledge deciphers the different transculturations of European discourses in the colonies as well as the repercussions of these transculturations on the motherland's ideas of the colonial other: The loss of a culturally binding centre in the case of the Spanish colonies – in contrast to France's strong presence and binding force – is accompanied by a multirelationality which increasingly shapes hispanophone Caribbean literature and promotes the pursuit for political independence. The book provides necessary revision to the idea that the 19th-century Caribbean can only be understood as an outpost of the European metropolises. Examining the kaleidoscope of the colonial Caribbean opens new insights into the early processes of cultural globalisation and questions our established concept of a genuine western modernity. Updated and expanded translation of Die koloniale Karibik. Transferprozesse in hispanophonen und frankophonen Literaturen, De Gruyter mimesis 53), 2012

Phenomena such as the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, or the surge of political populism show that the current phase of accelerated globalization is over. New concepts are needed in order to respond to this exhaustion of the global project: the volume scrutinizes these responses in the aesthetic realm and under a "post-global" banner, while incorporating alternative, non-Western epistemologies and literatures of the post-colonial Global South.

Biographical note: Gesine Müller (PD Dr.) lehrt Romanistik an der Universität Potsdam und leitet dort die Nachwuchsforschergruppe »Transkoloniale Karibik« (DFG). Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Karibikforschung, lateinamerikanische Gegenwartsliteraturen sowie Transferforschung. Natascha Ueckmann (PD Dr.) lehrt Romanistik an der Universität Bremen. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Karibik- und Diasporaforschung, Postkoloniale Literatur- und Kulturtheorien, Literatur und Film, Gender Studies sowie Reiseliteratur. Sie ist eine der Sprecherinnen des Instituts für Postkoloniale und Transkulturelle Studien (INPUTS) der Universität Bremen.

The existence of World Literature depends on specific processes, institutions, and actors involved in the global circulation of literary works. Looking at Latin American 20th and 21st century literatures, this book analyzes the role of publishing houses, politics of translation, mediators and gatekeepers, to provide insights into the processes that enable books to cross borders and to be transformed into globally circulating commodities.

Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap, disposable labour. The famous 'coolie trade' - mainly Asian labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa - was one of the largest migration movements in global history. Indentured contract workers are perhaps the most revealing example of bonded labour in the grey area between the poles of chattel slavery and 'free' wage labour.This interdisciplinary volume addresses historically and regionally specific cases of bonded labour relations from the 18th century to sponsorship systems in the Arab Gulf States today.

A modo de introducción / Ottmar Ette, Gesine Müller -- Worldwide: living in transarchipelagic worlds / Ottmar Ette -- Quand les Indes rencontrent les imaginaires du monde / Khal Torabully -- Construcions identitaires et communication hybride: de l'abbé Bouhours à l'archipélisation mauricienne / Ralph Ludwig -- L'île-archipélique, le Madagascar polyphonique de Raharimanana: nœud de communication et récepteur mondial / Ute Fendler -- Pensée archipélique versus francophonie: la mise en scène littéraire de l'inclusion et de l'exclusion / Gesine Müller -- L'imaginaire géopolitique de la Polynésie dans la littérature française: de Bougainville à Chantal T. Spitz / Torsten König -- Oceanic modernity: indigeneity, globality and cultural translation / Lars Eckstien, Anja Schwarz -- Archipel de progrès: discours sur la civilisation et la race à Cuba et Porto Rico / Consuelo Naranjo Orovio -- Los perros ingleses y los perros esclavos: exclusión, animalización y convivencia en Cecilia Valdés de Cirilo Villaverde / Leonie Meyer-Krentler -- "Il n'est vraie parole en Caraïbe que la schizophrénie: autour du Sprialism / Natascha Ueckmann -- Entre Island Hopping e islas con alas: autoras en el Caribe y sus figuraciones archipiélicas en relatos de viaje del siglo XIX / Johanna Abel -- México y Haití: ¿es posible la cooperación entre dos países en desarrollo? / Carlos Alba, Gustavo Vega -- Archipiélagos literarios: América Latina, las batallas de lo universal y lo local / Jorge Volpi -- Archipels minoritaires: littératures de l'exiguïté et résistances culturelles dans les espaces francophones insulaires en Amérique du Nord / Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink -- Las plantaciones bananeras como archipiélagos globales: visiones desde América Latina y el Caribe / Héctor Pérez Brignoli -- Archipelago or continental island?: reflections on Brazilian insularity / Heike Muranyi -- Ex-islados: construcciones de ida y vuelta entre la isla y el continente / Anne Kraume -- Heterolingual address and transnationality: translation and bordering / Naoki Sakai -- Entre les îles alliées: la traduction, médiatrice des cultures, et l'œvre d'Édouard Glissant / Beate Thill -- L'archipel des hommes-crocodiles: modernité, archaïsme et stratégie narrative chez Kossi Efoui / Markus Messling -- The metaphor of the archipelago / Bertrand Wesphal -- Vergeht die Zeit anders in Japan? / Yoko Tawada

Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalisms need for cheap, disposable labour. The famous coolie trade – mainly Asian labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa – was one of the largest migration movements in global history. Indentured contract workers are perhaps the most revealing example of bonded labour in the grey area between the poles of chattel slavery and free wage labour. This interdisciplinary volume addresses historically and regionally specific cases of bonded labour relations from the 18th century to sponsorship systems in the Arab Gulf States today.