Twenty-first-century literature by women from across the Caribbean and its diaspora evidences an urge to start afresh. It frequently points to the lingering legacy of enslavement, coloniality, and patriarchy as it denounces the pernicious effects of an inequitable global economic order premised on exploitative relationships and unsustainable practices that have ushered in ecological cataclysms. The present collection examines these matters through the prism of what we term “chronotropics.” Stemming from chronos (time) and tropos, both in reference to the geographical area under study and in its etymological acceptation of “a turn,” we use this neolo-gism to designate a poetics that calls for a turning point, a revolution in he social, economic, and political spheres, but also of an epistemic and ethical order. The narratives included here are chronotropic in that they actively challenge the anthropocentric and androcentric logic propelled by European capitalism according to which space is delimited, privatized,1tamed, and subject to extraction and time is measured, linear, singular, arbitrarily standardized,2 and teleological.Bringing together Julia Alvarez, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Vashti Bowlah, Dionne Brand, Erna Brodber, Maryse Condé, Nalo Hopkinson, Rita Indiana, Fabienne Kanor, Karen Lord, Kettly Mars, Pauline Melville, Mayra Montero, Shani Mootoo, Elizabeth Nunez, Ingrid Persaud, Gisèle Pineau, Krystal M. Ramroop, and Mayra Santos Febres, Chronotropics:Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime proposes novel interpretations of the region’s landscapes and history that are anticolonial, gender inclusive, and pluralistic. Attuned to autochthonous modes of being, ancestral cos-mologies, and an indigenous relation to terrains and temporalities, the theoretical and literary projects discussed in this pan-Caribbean volume gesture towards justice and social change through archival disruption, radical remapping, and epistemic marronnage. Our collection is articu-lated around these three converging approaches to Caribbean women’s spacetime.