Proposes a reading of Donna Hemans' novel River Woman in relation to other contemporary Caribbean women writers and to the early fiction of Toni Morrison. Argues that the complex affects that her representation of 'child-shifting' produces can be articulated in relation to literary texts that re-imagine historical and contemporary practices leaving a child in order to save her and in the context of the plantation.
Looks at the performance of tomboy identity in Joan Anim-Addo's collection of poetry Janie, Cricketing Lady and Margaret Cezair-Thompson's novel The Pirate's Daughter. Argues that the ongoing affects of colonialism and patriarchy in the islands of Grenada and Jamaica, shape the life narratives. To understand the way in which affect can be expressed through tomboyism in Caribbean societies, it is necessary to look at color and class alongside gender in the context of Caribbean creolization.
"In this paper the process of creolisation will be considered through analysis of the wills and testaments of African, black and mixed-race women in nineteenth-century Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. As primary sources these will and testaments provide evidence concerning material, social and cultural markers of creolisation." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];
In 1815, two benevolent organizations commenced operation in Antigua, the Female Refuge Society based in English Harbour and the Distressed Females' Friend Society based in St John's. The organizations were run on principle by women and the executive committees were multi-racial. The annual reports of the Female Refuge Society had a profound impact on the direction "of female anti-slavery activism in Britain.
Perl,Matthias (Author), Schwegler,Armin (Author), and Lorenzino,Gerardo (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1998
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Vervuert; Madrid: Frankfurt am Main
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379 p, Contents: ntroduction / Matthias Perl -- El español caribeño : antecedentes sociohistóricos y lingüísticos / Gerado Lorenzino ... [et al.] -- O portugûes vernáculo do Brasil / Heliana R. de Mello ... [et al.] -- El papiamentu de Curazao / Philippe Maurer -- El palenquero / Armin Schwegler -- Perspectivas sobre el español bozal / John M. Lipski
Talks about the Antillean waltz and the island where it originated, the Curaçao. Discussion on creolization; Details of music and dance as venues for creolization among Africans aboard a slave ship; Social hierarchy in the island during the eighteenth century.;
Curaçao: Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma : University of the Netherlands Antilles
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Incorporates invited papers as well as presentations made to the 13th annual Eastern Caribbean Islands Culture Conference (aka the 'Islands in Between' Conference) which was held at the Turkeyen Campus of the University of Guyana from 4 to 6 November 2011., 355 p., A collection of articles that presents a critical perspective on the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Greater Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora.
Christie,Pauline (Author) and Alleyne,Mervyn C. (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
Barbados: University of the West Indies Press
Location:
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224p, Focuses on Caribbean language and pays attention to issues of phonology, syntax, discourse, Creole genesis, and language problems in education. (back cover)
An investigation of Spanish-Creole languages in Latin America. After a socio-cultural and ethnological survey of the "transculturation" of ethnic groups of African origin, "creole" is defined as a third linguistic stratum between the African languages of slaves in America, and the official European languages. There is only an apparent lack of Spanish Creoles in South America. The black communities established in the old Cimarron settlements still manifest some Spanish Creole. (In Spanish)
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290 p, Introduction. Conceptualizing creoleness : French Caribbean "postcolonial" discourse. -- La Lézarde : Alienation and the poetics of Antillanité. -- En attendant le bonheur : Creole conjunctions and cultural survival. -- LIsole Soleil/Soufrières : textual creolization and cultural identity. -- LAutre qui danse : the modalities and multiplicities of Métissage. -- Solibo magnifique : carnival, opposition, and the narration of the Caribbean maroon. -- Conclusion. Creolizing the colonial encounter.
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310 p., Explores aboriginal and Creole identities in Guyanese society. Reveals how Creoles, though unable to usurp the place of aboriginals as First Peoples in the New World, nonetheless managed to introduce a new, more socially viable definition of belonging, through labor. The very reason for bringing enslaved and indentured workers into Caribbean labor became the organizing principle for Creoles' new identities.
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223 p., Investigates the exilic literature of Caribbean-born and Caribbean-descent writers who, from their new location in Northern America, question their cultural roots and search for a creative autonomy.
Examines the genesis of the French Antillean concept of Creolite that emerged in the 1980s and shows "how, through zouk, the popular music that emerged from Guadeloupe and Martinique in the early 1980s, Creolite is being defined, (re)presented, and negotiated." (author)
667 p., The author locates New Orleans as a cultural and cartographic heart linking the Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America into what she calls Américas du Golfe. The author traces flows of cultures and citizens(hips) through New Orleans and across national borders: physically, culturally, economically, visually, linguistically, and musically, challenging traditional nation-based scholarly frameworks, and reorienting New Orleans as a Gulf, rather than American, city.
The article reports on a conference on the history of the Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean regions, held in Berlin, Germany, from July 2-3, 2012. Topics of discussion included creole and African diasporic identities, racism, nationalism, and ethnic relations in Caribbean states such as Cuba, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic, and migration.
Attempts to develop ideas concerning the gendering of creolisation and a historicising of affects within it. Addressing affects as 'physiological things' contextualized in the history of the Caribbean slave plantation,seeks to delineate a trajectory and development of a specific Creole history in relation to affects.
Arion explores various issues related to Caribbean culture and what he calls 'Caribbeanness,' a stage which he feels the whole region has not reached yet
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)
Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
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First published in 1961. Original from the University of California., 468 p, Jamaica Talk is a thorough study of the English spoken in Jamaica and, although intended for the general educated reader rather than the linguistic specialist, has a foundation of sound scholarship.
Studies paralinguistic, pragmatic, and discourse markers of "kiss-teeth" by mapping the distribution of the gesture and its names and exploring previously unresolved problems of their meanings and use
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137 p, Seven essays by Professor of the Department of African Studies of Temple University, Philadelphia. (Libros Latinos); Cérol, Marie-Josée (pseud Ama Mazama)
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281 p, This book challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists, it proposes that the "limited access model" of Creole genesis is seriously flawed. (Amazon.com)
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387 p., Focuses on the origins of the Caribbean creole language Papiamentu. Argues that Papiamentu is genetically related to the Portuguese-based creoles of the Cape Verde Islands, Guinea-Bissau, and Casamance (Senegal). Following the trans-Atlantic transfer of native speakers to Curaçao in the latter half of the 17th century, the Portuguese-based proto-variety underwent a far-reaching process of relexification towards Spanish, affecting the basic vocabulary while leaving intact the original phonology, morphology, and syntax.
Conde,Maryse (Author) and Cottenet-Hage,Madeleine (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
Paris: Karthala
Location:
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320 p, Contents: introduction / Madeleine Cottenet-Hage -- The gendering of créolité / A. James Arnold -- Codes of law and bodies of color / Joan Dayan -- Métissage, discours masculin et déni de la mère / Françoise Vergès -- Critique afrocentrique de L'éloge de la créolité / Ama Mazama -- Créolité in question : Caliban in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove / Kathleen Balutansky -- La vie scélérate de Maryse Condé : métissage narratif et héritage métis / Marie-Agnès Sourieau -- "Créolité" is/as resistance : Raphaël Confiant's Le nègre et l'amiral / Ronnie Scarfman -- Jouissances carnavalesques : représentations de la sexualité / Thomas Spear -- Lire Chamoiseau / Delphine Perret -- Inscription du créole dans les textes francophones : de la citation à la créolisation / Pascale DeSouza -- Ecrire l'écrivain : créolité et spécularité / Lydie Moudileno -- Itinéraire d'un écrivain guadeloupéen / Ernest Pépin -- Emile Ollivier, romancier haïtien / Leon-François Hoffman -- Améliorer la lisibilité du monde / Emile Ollivier -- La créolité "Haitian style" / Leah D. Hewitt -- Métellus, diasporism and créolité / Hal Wylie -- La poésie insulaire de Saint-John Perse / Régis Antoine -- Maryse Condé, la république des corps / Christophe Lamiot --Ecrire en tant que Noire / Gisèle Pineau -- Reading Testimonio : the sound of Rigoberta's voice / Cora G. Lagos and Kevin Meehan -- Chercher nos vérités / Maryse Condé
Discusses several studies related to pidgin and creole languages of the Caribbean region and provides a background of its origin and development. The developments in the study of pidgins and creoles includes the evolution of studies on its similarities, variability, the clarification of the debate over the origin of the Black English and the idea about it as sociolinguistic.
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166 p., Gives a comprehensive analysis of the literary and theoretical discourse on race, culture, and identity by Francophone and Caribbean writers beginning in the early part of the twentieth century and continuing into the dawn of the new millennium. Examining the works of Patrick Chamoiseau, Raphael Confiant, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Leon Damas, and Paulette Nardal, the author traces a move away from the preoccupation with African origins and racial and cultural purity, toward concerns of hybridity and fragmentation in the New World or Diasporic space.
Las mujeres negras y mulatas de La Habana de las décadas de 1830 y 1840 "negociaron" su lugar en la sociedad Habanera. Ellas negociaron su inserción en todos los espacios de la ciudad, desde los públicos, como los espacios de la ley, hasta los más íntimos, como los espacios que forjaron con su propia sexualidad. En gran parte estas negociaciones estuvieron enmarcadas dentro de su papel decisivo como agentes mediadoras entre negros y blancos: como esposas, amantes, maestras, nodrizas, cuidanderas y sirvientas, pero también como dueñas de propiedad, empresarias y perseguidoras de sus propias causas legales. Ellas negociaron su participación social y económica en la ciudad a través de sus prácticas diarias, a menudo al margen de reglas urbanas y de tradiciones sociales. Estas prácticas estuvieron en tenso y continuo diálogo con los discursos de las elites modernizadoras tanto criollas como peninsulares. Tales reformadores, que consideraron la creciente participación de estas mujeres en la vida diaria como uno de los aspectos más desordenados de la ciudad, desarrollaron fuertes discursos de orden social y reformas urbanas con el propósito de disciplinar la ciudad en crecimiento. Muchos de estos discursos estuvieron orientados a establecer límites sociales y raciales más claramente delineados (y racionalizados) que trataran de contener, si no las actividades mismas de estas mujeres, por lo menos su influencia en la población capitalina. Fue en este diálogo, siempre desigual y muchas veces violento, que se fue dibujando la geografía moderna de La Habana. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];
"On the basis of Bastide's Les Amériques noires, this book review dwells on the memory of slavery and of African origins among black people in the New World. It focuses on the everyday as well as literary identity constructs presented in two recent books about Afro-Colombians and Creoles in Martinique." (author)
"Any attempt to trace the many resonances that historically have been attached to the creole figure in Caribbean literature and culture will be inflected by the long and pervading presence of colonialism in the region and its attendant corollary of hierarchical social separation and difference based on perceptions of race. Indeed, the ambivalent desire and subjective misrecognition that lay at the heart of historical writing about colonialism and racism have tended to frame the issues of monstrosity and exclusion that produced the creole as part and parcel of wider colonial discourses. Thus, the shifting and increasingly unstable inscription of the creole figure echoes, in a certain sense, certain critical ambiguities of politics and temporality that color the colonial encounter and its aftermath. Specifically, in the contemporary English- and French-speaking Caribbean, the multiplicity, displacement, and creative instability that undergird creole-driven theories of postcolonial performance have supplanted this category's suspect beginnings as colonialism's model for the fearfully unnameable and unplaceable hybrid monstrosity, and now increasingly shape the substance of much of the artistic and creative work emerging from the region." --The Author
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v, 174 leaves ; 29 cm., This novel is a contemporary novel that deals with the history of france; "UMI:9959638."/ Includes bibliographical references ( 167-174)./ Reproduction: Photocopy./ Ann Arbor, Mich. :/ UMI,/ 2000./ v, 174 ; 21 cm.
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309 p., Drawing from Haitian Vodou and New Orleanian Voudou and from Cuban and South Floridian Santería, as well as from Afro-Baptist (Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounters with otherness, this book reemplaces deep-southern texts within the counterclockwise ring-stepping of a long Afro-Atlantic modernity. Includes "Down to the Mire : Travels, Shouts & Fe Chauffe, Balanse, Swing : Saint Domingue Refugees in the Govi of New Orleans."
409 p., By exploring how colonists and enslaved folk migrated across island boundaries, manipulated imperial tensions, and organized acts of collective dissent, this dissertation attempts to demonstrate the relationship between space, power, and imperial governance in the British Leeward Islands from the time of transnational colonization through their ascendency as black majorities. It examines the ways British empire makers struggled to turn a series of closely interlinked islands stretching from Guadeloupe to the Virgin Islands into a unified colony and how this effort was challenged by the development of a regional black identity that linked slaves across island and imperial boundaries in the early eighteenth century.
The work of Haitian author Jacques Stephen Alexis is replete with examples of characters caught in the dilemmas of exile. The author focuses on Alexis's characters who go through a "true" expatriation, a movement out of Haiti and into another country, and considers how the various experiences of expatriation are represented, as well as how the presence of the Haitian exiles impacts the host country. Taking examples from Alexis's novel Compère Général Soleil, Monro argues that the Haitian exiles unwittingly, though inevitably, disrupt the illusion of oneness of national identity and culture and become a subversive force, creolizing culture in the place of exile, the Dominican Republic. This cultural creolization in turn is a threat to the monocultural, totalizing political discourses of the host country, it is argued.;
