Yolanda Martínez San Miguel is the Marta S. Weeks Chair and professor of Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures at the University of Miami. She is the author of Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Archipelagic Impulse in Colonial and Decolonial ImaginariesPart I. Colonial Archipelagic Cartographies1. Inventing the Colonial Archipelago: The Caribbean in Colonial Maps and Narratives (Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries)2. Beyond Nationalism, Creolization, and Mulataje: Chinese in the Caribbean (Nineteenth Century)Part II. Con/Federations3. Archipelagic Erotics: The Literary Invention of the Confederación Antillana and the West Indies Federation (Nineteenth Century and 1958–1962)4. The Return of the Archipelago: Caribbean Con/Federations as Myth (Twentieth–Twenty-First Centuries)Part III. Overseas Territories5. “Déjenme hablar señores”: Puerto Ricans in Hawai‘i; Nineteenth–Twentieth Centuries6. Terripelagoes: Archipelagic Poetics and Artivism in Culebra and Guåhan (Twentieth–Twenty-First Centuries)Conclusion: Toward an Archipelagic ExegesisNotesBibliographyIndex

Yolanda Martínez San Miguel is the Marta S. Weeks Chair and professor of Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures at the University of Miami. She is the author of Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Archipelagic Impulse in Colonial and Decolonial ImaginariesPart I. Colonial Archipelagic Cartographies1. Inventing the Colonial Archipelago: The Caribbean in Colonial Maps and Narratives (Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries)2. Beyond Nationalism, Creolization, and Mulataje: Chinese in the Caribbean (Nineteenth Century)Part II. Con/Federations3. Archipelagic Erotics: The Literary Invention of the Confederación Antillana and the West Indies Federation (Nineteenth Century and 1958–1962)4. The Return of the Archipelago: Caribbean Con/Federations as Myth (Twentieth–Twenty-First Centuries)Part III. Overseas Territories5. “Déjenme hablar señores”: Puerto Ricans in Hawai‘i; Nineteenth–Twentieth Centuries6. Terripelagoes: Archipelagic Poetics and Artivism in Culebra and Guåhan (Twentieth–Twenty-First Centuries)Conclusion: Toward an Archipelagic ExegesisNotesBibliographyIndex

Yolanda Martínez San Miguel is the Marta S. Weeks Chair and professor of Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures at the University of Miami. She is the author of Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Archipelagic Impulse in Colonial and Decolonial ImaginariesPart I. Colonial Archipelagic Cartographies1. Inventing the Colonial Archipelago: The Caribbean in Colonial Maps and Narratives (Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries)2. Beyond Nationalism, Creolization, and Mulataje: Chinese in the Caribbean (Nineteenth Century)Part II. Con/Federations3. Archipelagic Erotics: The Literary Invention of the Confederación Antillana and the West Indies Federation (Nineteenth Century and 1958–1962)4. The Return of the Archipelago: Caribbean Con/Federations as Myth (Twentieth–Twenty-First Centuries)Part III. Overseas Territories5. “Déjenme hablar señores”: Puerto Ricans in Hawai‘i; Nineteenth–Twentieth Centuries6. Terripelagoes: Archipelagic Poetics and Artivism in Culebra and Guåhan (Twentieth–Twenty-First Centuries)Conclusion: Toward an Archipelagic ExegesisNotesBibliographyIndex