Conclusion

Abstract

Abstract This conclusion reflects on the implications of considering Aboriginal and Caribbean literary encounters for the study of world literature, a field institutionally defined by logics of exchange and circulation (Damrosch 2001). Drawing on the world figures generated by Aboriginal and Caribbean literary encounters (the world archipelago and the ancient library), the chapter argues that all world frameworks reckon with perspectival limits and scales conditioned by geographical, imaginative, institutional, and cultural forces. The world archipelago and the ancient library contextualize an alternative picture than that institutionally enshrined, so as to differentiate the epistemological and cultural principles used to write, read, interpret, and navigate a literary world.