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SUMMARY:Book Talk with Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel\, "Caribbean Archipelag
 oes Comparative Insular and Colonial Studies"
LOCATION:Books & Books\, 265 Aragon Avenue\, Coral Gables\, FL 33134
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Humanities invites you to our 3rd Book Talk
  of the academic year with Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel\, who will present
  on her recent publication\, Caribbean Archipelagoes: Comparative Insular
  and Colonial Studies in conversation with colleague Jorge Duany. Yolanda
  Martínez-San Miguel is Marta S. Weeks Chair in Latin American Studies an
 d Professor\, Department of Modern Languages & Literatures\, University o
 f Miami. Jorge Duany is Professor Emeritus\, Department of Global & Socio
 cultural Studies\; Former Director\, Cuban Research Institute\, Florida I
 nternational University.\n\n___\n\nConnecting the Caribbean with other is
 land networks that have shared histories and legacies of empire\n\nWhile 
 the Caribbean is often studied by focusing on individual islands and thei
 r pasts\, Caribbean Archipelagoes proposes a new way of understanding thi
 s vital part of the world by placing it in conversation with other island
  chains\, emphasizing those in the Pacific that share similar colonial hi
 stories. Drawing on cultural productions and concepts by thinkers such as
  Audre Lorde\, Édouard Glissant\, Derek Walcott\, Michelle Stephens\, God
 frey Baldacchino\, Elizabeth DeLoughrey\, and Lanny Thompson\, Yolanda Ma
 rtínez San Miguel calls for a reexamination of the Caribbean as a colonia
 l archipelago—a network of islands shaped by the shared challenges and st
 rategies of empires.\n\nAnalyzing a variety of primary sources in the Car
 ibbean and places such as Guåhan and Hawai‘i\, including historical maps 
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