Christina Kullberg is associate professor of French literatures at Uppsala University, specialized in contemporary Caribbean and in Early Modern travel writing. She has published extensively on Caribbean literature, including a monograph The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican Narratives: Exploring the Self and the Environment (2013) and numerous articles in journals such as Callaloo, Small Axe and Research in African Literatures. Currently, she works on a project that analyzes the inclusion of other languages and voices in Early Modern French travel writing to the Caribbean, entitled âTropical Engagementsâ and funded by The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences, (www.rj.se) She is a member of the steering committee of the research program âCosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literaturesâ www.worldlit.se
The book appeals to researchers and students of French literatures and of travel writing. Anthropologists and historians concerned with the early modern Caribbean will also be interested in this interdisciplinary study.