American Creoles
The Francophone Caribbean and the American South
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
256 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2012
In American Creoles, leading authorities examine the cultural, social, and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South. The essays focus on issues of history, language, politics, and culture in various forms and consider figures as diverse as Barack Obama, Frantz Fanon, Miles Davis, James Brown, Edouard Glissant, William Faulkner, and Lafcadio Hearn. Exploring the ideas of Creole culture and creolization—terms rooted in the history of contact between European and African people and cultures in the Americas—the essays provide productive ways to conceive of the larger Caribbean as a single cultural and historical entity.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Martin Munro and Celia Britton
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 Barack 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 on Contributors
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Martin Munro and Celia Britton
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 Barack 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 on Contributors
Index
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