American Creoles : The Francophone Caribbean and the American South /

The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration of the plantation, in terms of its physical layout and the social relation...

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Other Authors: Britton, Celia (Editor), Munro, Martin (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Creolizations. Lafcadio Hearn's American writings and the Creole continuum / Mary Gallagher ; Auguste Lussan's La famille creole: how Saint-Domingue emigres became Louisiana Creoles / Typhaine Leservot ; Caribbean and Creole in New Orleans / Angel Adams Parham ; Creolizing Barak Obama / Valerie 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 negritude / 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, Conde. 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 Azerad ; The theme of the ancestral crime in the novels of Faulkner, Glissant, and Conde / Celia Britton ; An American story / Yanick Lahens.