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    2. In Praise of Creoleness: Jean Bernabe, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphael Confiant

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Bernabe,Jean (Author), Chamoiseau,Patrick (Author), Confiant,Raphael (Author), and Mohamed B. Taleb Khyar (Translator)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall, 1990
    Published:
    Baton Rouge: Callaloo
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Callaloo
    Journal Title Details:
    13(4) : 886-909
    Notes:
    This text was first published in French under the title of Tloge de la creolite by Editions Gallimard in 1989. "Neither Europeans, nor Africans, nor Asians, we proclaim ourselves Creoles. This will be for us an interior attitude-better, a vigilance, or even better, a sort of mental envelope in the middle of which our world will be built in full consciousness of the outer world. These words we are communicating to you do not stem from theory, nor do they stem from any learned principles. They are, rather, akin to testimony. They proceed from a sterile experience which we have known before committing ourselves to reactivate our creative potential, and to set in motion the expression of what we are." (the authors)

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