{"product_id":"caribbean-creolization-reflections-on-the-cultural-dynamics-of-language-literature-and-identity-9780813027401","title":"Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dynamics of Language, Literature, and Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eAntillean Journey, by Daniel Maximin\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Creolization and the Creative Imagination \u003cbr\u003eCreoleness: The Crossroads of a Civilization? by Wilson Harris\u003cbr\u003eThe Caribbean: Marvelous Cradle-Hammock and Painful Cornucopia, by Carlos Guillermo Wilson\u003cbr\u003eWho's Afraid of the Winti Spirit? by Astrid H. Roemer\u003cbr\u003eThree Words toward Creolization, by Antonio Benítez-Rojo\u003cbr\u003eDominicanyorkness: A Metropolitan Discovery of the Triangle, by Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso\u003cbr\u003eWhere Are All the Others? by Erna Brodber\u003cbr\u003eA Brief History of My Country, by Lourdes Vázquez\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Creolization, Literature, and the Politics of Language \u003cbr\u003eWriting and Creole Language Politics: Voice and Story, by Merle Collins\u003cbr\u003eThe Stakes of \u003ci\u003eCréolité\u003c\/i\u003e, by Ernest Pépin and Raphaël Confiant\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCréolité\u003c\/i\u003e without Creole Language? By Maryse Condé\u003cbr\u003eThe Victory of the Concubines and the Nannies, by Frank Martinus Arion\u003cbr\u003eThe Process of Creolization in Haiti and the Pitfalls of the Graphic Form, by Jean Métellus\u003cbr\u003eRace, Space, and the Poetics of Moving, by M. Nourbese Philip\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword, by Yanick Lahens \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathleen M. Balutansky is associate professor of English at Saint Michael's College and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Novels of Alex La Guma\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eof several articles on Caribbean women writers\u003c\/i\u003e. Marie-Agnes Sourieau is assistant professor of French at Fairfield University and author of articles on Francophone Caribbean literature in \u003ci\u003eCallaloo\u003c\/i\u003e, French Review, and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50675240993042,"sku":"9780813027401","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b30b5f2a-0c11-4266-98c8-1bb74cfc9bec.jpg?v=1733873511","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/caribbean-creolization-reflections-on-the-cultural-dynamics-of-language-literature-and-identity-9780813027401","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}