American Creoles The Francophone Caribbean And The American South
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781846317538
Description: 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.