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Creolization as cultural creativity / edited by Robert Baron and Ana C. Cara.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Creoles--Louisiana--Folklore.
- Creoles.
- Creoles--Caribbean Area--Folklore.
- Creoles--Argentina--Folklore.
- Folklore--Performance.
- Folklore.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 354 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Global in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, Creolization as Cultural Creativity explores the expressive forms and performances that come into being when cultures encounter one another. Creolization is presented as a powerful marker of identity in the postcolonial creole societies of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the southwest Indian Ocean region, as well as a universal process that can occur anywhere cultures come into contact. An extraordinary number of cultures from Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, the southern United States, Trinidad and Tobago, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, R
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Creolization as Cultural Creativity; Metaphors of Incommensurability; Monde Créole: The Cultural World of French Louisiana Creoles and the Creolization of World Cultures; Creolization, Nam, Absent Loved Ones, Watchers, and Serious Play with "Toys"; Ritual Piracy: Or Creolization with an Attitude; Africa's Creole Drum: The Gumbe as Vector and Signifier of Trans-African Creolization; Techniques of Creolization; Creole Talk: The Poetics and Politics of Argentine Verbal Art; Villes, Poèmes: The Postwar Routes of Caribbean Creolization
- Amalgams and Mosaics, Syncretisms and Reinterpretations: Reading Herskovits and Contemporary Creolists for Metaphors of Creolization; About Face: Rethinking Creolization; References; List of Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-24570-1
- 9786613245700
- 1-61703-107-0
- OCLC:
- 749264625
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