Title: American Creoles : the Francophone Caribbean and the American South /
Authors: Munro, Martin.; Britton, Celia.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: French literature Foreign countries History and criticism; American literature Caribbean influences.; Postcolonialism in literature.; Creoles Caribbean Area.; Creoles Southern States.; Civilization; Creoles; French literature Foreign countries History and criticism.; History; Literature; Postcolonialism in literature.; Southern States Civilization Caribbean influences.
Abstract: 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.