Carnival in the Creole City
Place, Race, and Identity in the Age of Globalization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3805565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daphne Lamothe (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 360-374 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2012.0020 |
| OpenAlex | W2031487970 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
In this essay I argue that Haitian-American artists Edwidge Danticat and Wyclef Jean employ Carnival symbolism to explore the practices and politics of belonging in "global" cities. While meditating on the cultural and social dynamism produced by transnationalism, they resist the impulse to idealize its effects. In song and nonfi ctional narrative, they refl ect also on the ways that historical and structural violence shape the lives of Haitian migrants in creolized cities
Aesthetics · AKA · Art · Creole language · Dynamism · Globalization · Linguistics · Literature · Mainstream · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transnationalism · Anthropology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Cuban History and Society · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |