African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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256 p., This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration of the plantation, in terms of its physical layout and the social relations it created, was largely the same in the Caribbean and the American South. Essays written by leading authorities in the field examine the cultural, social, and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South, including Louisiana, which among the Southern states has had a quite particular attachment to France and the Francophone world. The essays focus on issues of history, language, politics and culture in various forms, notably literature, music and theater.
Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Los Angeles
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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411 p., "Even though accepted definitions of the Caribbean Creole focus on its status as native to the region, it is just as emphatically tied to somewhere else, giving it a vexed status. Through a comparative analysis of fictional, sociological, historical and psychological portraits of the Caribbean Creole, I argue that the Creole's working definition is equally indebted to casting it as a cultural outsider in local contexts in and around the Caribbean." --The Author