American Creoles

The Francophone Caribbean and the American South

AvMartin Munro,Celia Britton

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Del 3 i serien Francophone Postcolonial Studies

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Beskrivning

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration of the plantation, in terms of its physical layout and the social relations it created, was largely the same in the Caribbean and the American South. Essays written by leading authorities in the field examine the cultural, social, and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South, including Louisiana, which among the Southern states has had a quite particular attachment to France and the Francophone world. The essays focus on issues of history, language, politics and culture in various forms, notably literature, music and theatre. Considering figures as diverse as Barack Obama, Frantz Fanon, Miles Davis, James Brown, Edouard Glissant, William Faulkner, Maryse Condé and Lafcadio Hearn, the essays explore in innovative ways the notions of creole culture and creolization, terms rooted in and indicative of contact between European and African people and cultures in the Americas, and which are promoted here as some of the most productive ways for conceiving of the circum-Caribbean as a cultural and historical entity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-05-25
Mått:163 x 239 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Francophone Postcolonial Studies
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781846317538

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Mer om författaren

Martin Munro is Winthrop-King Professor of French at Florida State University. He previously worked in Scotland, Ireland and Trinidad. His latest academic monograph is The Music of the Future: Sound and Vision in the Caribbean (Oxford, 2024). Celia Britton is Emeritus Professor at University College London.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations AcknowledgementsIntroduction - Martin Munro and Celia BrittonCreolizations Lafcadio Hearn's American Writings and the Creole Continuum - Mary Gallagher Auguste Lussan's La Famille creole: How Saint-Domingue Emigres Bcame Louisiana Creoles - Typhaine Leservot Caribbean and Creole in New Orleans - Angle Adams Parham Creolizing Barack Obama - Valerie Loichot Richard Price or the Canadian from Petite-Anse: The Potential and the Limitations of a Hybrid Anthropology - Christina KullbergMusic 'Fightin' the Future': Rhythm and Creolization in the Circum-Caribbean - Martin Munro Leaving the South: Frantz Fanon, Modern Jazz, and the Rejection of Negritude - Jeremy F. Lane The Sorcerer and the Quimboiseur: Poetic Intention in the Works of Miles Davis and Edourard Glissant - Jean-Luc Tamby Creolizing Jazz, Jazzing the Tout-monde: Jazz, Gwoka and the Poetics of Relation - Jerome CamalIntertextualities: Faulkner, Glissant, Conde Go Slow Now: Saying the Unsayable in Edouard Glissant's Reading of Faulkner - Michael Wiedorn Edouard Glissant and the Test of Faulkner's Modernism - Hugh Azerad The Theme of the Ancestral Crime in the Novels of Faulkner, Glissant, and Conde - Celia Britton An American Story - Yanick LahenNotes on Contributors Index