Creolization as cultural creativity /
This volume explores the expressive forms and performances that come into being when cultures encounter one another. Creolisation is presented as a powerful marker of identity in the post-colonial creole societies of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the southwest Indian Ocean region, as well as a u...
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2011
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Creolization as cultural creativity / Robert Baron and Ana C. Cara
- Metaphors of incommensurability / John F. Szwed
- Monde Creóle : the cultural world of French Louisiana Creoles and the creolization of world cultures / Nick Spitzer
- Creolization, Nam, absent loved ones, watchers, and serious play with "toys" / Grey Gundaker
- Ritual piracy : or creolization with an attitude / Raquel Romberg
- Africa's Creole drum : the gumbe as vector and signifier of trans-African creolization / Kenneth Bilby
- Techniques of creolization / Lee Haring
- Creole talk : the poetics and politics of Argentine verbal art / Ana C. Cara
- Villes, poème : the postwar routes of Caribbean creolization / J. Michael Dash
- Amalgams and mosaics, syncretisms and reinterpretations : reading Herskovits and contemporary creolists for metaphors of creolization / Robert Baron
- About face : rethinking creolization / Roger D. Abrahams.
