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Caribbean Creolization
Edited by
Kathleen M. Balutansky and 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. Part I: Creolization and the Creative Imagination Creoleness: The Crossroads of a Civilization? by Wilson Harris The Caribbean: Marvelous Cradle-Hammock and Painful Cornucopia, by Carlos Guillermo Wilson Who's Afraid of the Winti Spirit!? by Astrid H. Roemer Three Words toward Creolization, by Antonio Benítez-Rojo Dominicanyorkness: A Metropolitan Discovery of the Triangle, by Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso Where Are All the Others? by Erna Brodber A Brief History of My Country, by Lourdes Vázquez Part II: Creolization, Literature, and the Politics of Language Writing and Creole Language Politics: Voice and Story, by Merle Collins The Stakes of Créolité, by Ernest Pépin and Raphaël Confiant Créolité without Creole Language? By Maryse Condé The Victory of the Concubines and the Nannies, by Frank Martinus Arion The Process of Creolization in Haiti and the Pitfalls of the Graphic Form, by Jean Métellus Race, Space, and the Poetics of Moving, by M. Nourbese Philip Afterword, by Yanick
Lahens 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. 1998. 240 pp. 6 X 9. Notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8130-1558-8 Cloth, $59.95
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"Presents an essential, new chapter in the theory of creolization." -Caribbean Studies Newsletter
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. |
