Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking

Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel is the Marta S. Weeks Endowed Chair in Latin American Studies and professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami. Michelle Stephens is the Dean of the Humanities at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies.

• Acknowledgments Archipelagic Poetics: Foreword, Craig Santos Perez1. Introduction: “Isolated Above, but Connected Below”: Toward New, Global, Archipelagic Linkages, Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Michelle StephensPART I: SPACE, SCALE, LANGUAGE, AND TIME: FOUNDATIONAL EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF ARCHIPELAGIC THOUGHT2. Disciplinary Formations, Creative Tensions, and Certain Logics in Archipelagic Studies, Elaine Stratford3. The Affirmational Turn to Ontology in the Anthropocene: A Critique, Jonathan Pugh4. What Is an Archipelago? On Bandung Praxis, Lingua Franca, and Archipelagic Interlapping, Brian Russell Roberts5. The Chronotopes of Archipelagic Thinking: Glissant and the Narrative of Philosophy, Lanny ThompsonPART II: BEYOND THE SEA AS METAPHOR: COMPARATIVE MARITIME EPISTEMOLOGIES6. An Early Medieval “Sea of Islands”: Area Studies, Medieval Studies, and Traditions of Wayfinding, Jeremy DeAngelo7. Archipelago of the Maghreb: Mapping Mediterranean Movement from Transnational Migration to Transregional Mobility, Sarah DeMott8. Archipelagic Deformations and Decontinental Disability Studies, Mary Eyring9. Digital Currents, Oceanic Drift, and the Evolving Ecology of the Temporary Autonomous Zone, Lisa SwanstromPART III: ARCHIPELAGIC ENVIRONMENTS: EVOLVING POLITICAL ECOLOGIES10. Literary Archipelagraphies: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago, Pippa Marland11. Conservation Archipelago: Protecting Long-Distance Migratory Shorebirds along the Atlantic Flyway, Jenny R. Isaacs12. The Debris of Caribbean History: Literature, Art, and Archipelagic Plastic, Lizabeth Paravisini-GebertPART IV: RELATIONAL ARCHIPELAGICS: REDEFINING IMPERIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES13. Archipelagoes as the Fractal Fringe of Coloniality: Demilitarizing Caribbean and Pacific Islands, Mimi Sheller14. Sardinia “Lost between Europe and Africa”: Archaeology and Archipelagic Theory, Thomas P. Leppard, Elizabeth A. Murphy, and Andrea Roppa15. Sovereignty between Empire and Nation-State: The Archipelago as Postcolonial Format, Christopher J. Lee16. Archipelagic Feeling: Counter-mapping Indigeneity and Diaspora in the Trans-Pacific, Haruki EdaPART V: INTER-ISLAND DYNAMISMS: SMALL ISLANDS/BIG WORLDS17. “Together, but Not Together, Together”: The Politics of Identity in Island Archipelagoes, Godfrey Baldacchino18. Small Islands, Large Radio: Archipelagic Listening in the Caribbean, Jessica Swanston Baker19. The Insular and the Transnational Archipelagoes: The Indo-Caribbean in Samuel Selvon and Harold Sonny Ladoo, Anjali Nerlekar20. On Archipelagic Beings, Gitanjali PyndiahIndex About the Contributors

Through literary studies, anthropology and archaeology, poetry, philosophy, cartography, eco-environmental critique, ethnomusicology—and more—the contributors to Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking provide dazzling insights into fragments of time, space, genealogy, and political culture that shape global “interlapping” journeys. Across the Pacific, Caribbean, Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean, they capture elusive experiences that redefine histories and narratives lived through continents, oceans, and islands.