American Creoles : the Francophone Caribbean and the American South / edited by Martin Munro and Celia Britton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Munro, Martin.

Britton, Celia

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Francophone postcolonial studies ; new ser., v. 3.

Francophone postcolonial studies. New series ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creoles--Caribbean, French-speaking.

Creoles.

Creoles--Southern States.

Caribbean literature (French Creole)--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature (French Creole).

French literature--Foreign countries--History and criticism.

French literature.

French literature--Foreign countries.

American literature--Caribbean authors.

American literature.

Authors, Caribbean.

Caribbean Area--In literature.

Caribbean Area.

Southern States--In literature.

Southern States.

Southern States--Civilization.

Civilization.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012.

Contents:

Creolizations. Lafcadio Hearn's American writings and the Creole continuum / Mary Gallagher ; Auguste Lussan's La famille créole: how Saint-Domingue émigrés became Louisiana Creoles / Typhaine Leservot ; Caribbean and Creole in New Orleans / Angel Adams Parham ; Creolizing Barak Obama / Valérie Loichot ; Richard Price or the Canadian from Petite-Anse: the potential and the limitations of a hybrid anthropology / Christina Kullberg

Music. "Fightin' the future": rhythm and Creolization in the circum-Caribbean / Martin Munro ; Leaving the South: Frantz Fanon, modern jazz, and the rejection of négritude / Jeremy F. Lane ; The sorcerer and the quimboiseur: poetic intention in the works of Miles Davis and Édouard Glissant / Jean-Luc Tamby ; Creolizing jazz, jazzing the tout-monde: jazz, gwoka and the poetics of relation / Jerome Camal

Intertextualities: Faulkner, Glissant, Condé. Go slow now: saying the unsayable in Édouard Glissant's reading of Faulkner / Michael Wiedorn ; Édouard Glissant and the test of Faulkner's modernism / Hugues Azérad ; The theme of the ancestral crime in the novels of Faulkner, Glissant, and Condé / Celia Britton ; An American story / Yanick Lahens.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781846317538

1846317533

OCLC:

760973361

Publisher Number:

99949290044