Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dynamics of Language, Literature, and Identity
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This 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 that 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.The 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.BooknewsBrings together prominent writers from the English-, French-, Spanish-, and Dutch-speaking Caribbean in an examination of creolization and its impact on the region's literary production. Contributors are engaged in redefining Caribbean identity and aesthetics, 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. They address controversial issues including racism in mestizaje cultures, opposing theories of history and development of Papiamento and Haitian Creole, and the role of Creole languages in the production of consciousness and literature. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
PrefaceIntroduction1Antillean Journey131Creoleness: The Crossroads of a Civilization?232The Caribbean: Marvelous Cradle-Hammock and Painful Cornucopia363Who's Afraid of the Winti Spirit?444Three Words toward Creolization535Dominicanyorkness: A Metropolitan Discovery of the Triangle626Where Are All the Others?687A Brief History of My Country768Writing and Creole Language Politics: Voice and Story899The Stakes of Creolite9610Creolite without Creole Language?10111The Victory of the Concubines and the Nannies11012The Process of Creolization in Haiti and the Pitfalls of the Graphic Form11813Race, Space, and the Poetics of Moving129Afterword155Notes165Works Cited173Contributors179Index185
