Shackles of Memory: Creolization in the French Americas - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935754688 ISBN 13: 9781935754688

Publisher: University of Louisiana, 2016

Synopsis

Creolization in the French Americas aims to uncover and explore the roots, development, and cultural dynamism of Creole society and culture in the colonial and post-colonial francophone world. The collection embodies the conviction that complex phenomena like the emergence and evolution of Creole identity require perspectives that only a diversity of disciplines and points of view can offer, and that those disciplines and perspectives can come together and progress toward knowledge and understanding.

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Creolization in the French Americas aims to uncover and explore the roots, development, and cultural dynamism of Creole society and culture in the colonial and post-colonial francophone world. The essays and creative works gathered here draw from distinct but related literatures emerging in the Francophone, Anglophone, African, and Caribbean scholarship on creolization, including such divergent fields as early modern European colonial history, dance choreography, psychoanalysis, linguistics, literary study of new world travel narratives, American Studies, museum studies, French literature, philosophy, art history, and African and African Diaspora studies. The collection embodies the conviction that complex phenomena like the emergence and evolution of Creole identity require perspectives that only a diversity of disciplines and points of view can offer, and that those disciplines and perspectives can come together and progress toward knowledge and understanding.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Louisiana
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935754688
• ISBN 13: 9781935754688
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286
• Editor: Masseaut Jean-Marc, Kellman Jordan