Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dynamics of Language, Literature, and Identity (Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series) - Softcover

Kathleen M. Balutansky (editor)|Marie-Agnes Sourieau (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1947372009 ISBN 13: 9781947372009

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2017

Synopsis

This volume brings together prominent writers from the English, French, Spanish, and Dutch speaking Caribbean in an examination of creolization and its impact upon the region's literary production. It is especially noteworthy for the broad spectrum of Caribbean nationalities it includes: writers from Cuba, Curacao, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Panama, Suriname, and Tobago. Together, they are engaged in redefining Caribbean identity and esthetics, and their reflections on this process trace the evolution of a dynamic regional literature and identity out of materials displaced amid the movement of colonial empires and nationalistic and economic upheavals.

The collection addresses a number of controversial issues, among them the survival of racism in mestizaje cultures of Hispanic nations of the Caribbean, the opposing theories of the history and development of Papiamento and Haitian Creole, and the role of Creole languages in the production of consciousness and literature.

Kathleen M. Balutansky is associate professor of English at Saint Michael's College and author of The Novels of Alex La Guma and of several articles on Caribbean women writers. Marie-Agnes Sourieau is assistant professor of French at Fairfield University and author of articles on Francophone Caribbean literature in Callaloo, French Review, and elsewhere.

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Review

"Presents an essential, new chapter in the theory of creolization."

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1947372009
• ISBN 13: 9781947372009
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 206