... This chapter introduces the method of reading across canons, archives, and continents, which places the “archive of liberalism”—the literary, cultural, and political philosophical narratives of progress and individual freedom—alongside the colonial state archives from which such works have been...

... the history of US-Trinidadian relations during the Second World War thickens our perception of island-continent interrelations, and worries a tradition of American continentalism that narrowly reads islands as isolated, peripheral, and ancillary. The circulation and social history of this stolen calypso tune...

... continents Édouard Glissant distant reading nissology exploration ...