Créolité, Creolization, and Contemporary Caribbean Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4986934 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Adlai Murdoch (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 180-198 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1534-6714 • E-ISSN: 0799-0537 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/07990537-3843938 |
| OpenAlex | W2604314499 |
| Language | FR |
| References cited | 14 |
Taking the publication of Éloge de la créolité as a starting point, a number of key questions can be posed: What was the discursive and thematic goal of the Éloge? How does it distinguish itself from creolization? And how do we assess its political stance and its sociocultural accomplishments? One key predecessor, Kamau Brathwaite, suggested that the binarisms undergirding the principle of cultural distinctness on which much of the historical definition of the region was drawn be abandoned in favor of an increasing recognition of its intrinsic cultural heterogeneity. For many, the programmatic nature of the tenets of créolité-highlighting specificities of periodization and linguistic and cultural practice-appeared to mark the opposite of an open approach to ethnocultural representation. But perhaps créolité's ultimate value lay in its instantiation of an enunciative framework for cultural identity, also visible in Caribbean carnivals and in regional musical rhythms such as zouk
Aesthetics · Art · Creolization · Cultural identity · Epistemology · Identity (music · Key (lock · Linguistics · Literature · Musical · Periodization · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Anthropology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Travel Writing and Literature
Black Skin, White Masks
The birth of African-American culture
Stuart Hall
The Notion of Creolization
Caribbean Creolization
"Charting the "Black Atlantic
West Indians and Their Language
Order, Disorder, Freedom, and the West Indian Writer
The Repeating Island
Zouk
Bacchanal
Ki moun nou ye?' The idea of difference in contemporary French West Indian thought
Catching the Wind
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |