Chapter 1 Introduction—The Post-Columbus Syndrome: A Comparative Approach to Caribbean Memory in the Longue Durée

Chapter 2 Transculturation as Commemoration: Fernando Ortiz, the Cuban longue durée , and the Role of Columbus

Chapter 3 Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s Transnational Anamnesis : Creolizing Columbus in the English Caribbean Collective Memory

Chapter 4 The Snake, the Shore, and Columbus: Edouard Glissant’s Anamnesis of the French Département d’Outre-Mer

Chapter 6 Columbus The Memorious : Commemorations of the 500th Anniversary of the Discovery of the New World in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic

Chapter 7 Christopher Columbus in the English Caribbean: Commemoration and Performance in Jamaica

Chapter 8 Columbus in Guadeloupe and Martinique: Amnesia and Commemoration in the French Outremer

Chapter 9 Columbus, the Scapegoat, and the Zombie: Performance and Tales of the National Memory in Haiti

Chapter 10 Conclusion: Toward an Archipelagic Memory