The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. 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 theatre.
Series statement
Francophone Postcolonial Studies ; new series, vol. 3
Creolizations. Lafcadio Hearn's American writings and the Creole continuum / Mary Gallagher ; Auguste Lussan's La famille creole: how Saint-Domingue emigres became Louisiana Creoles / Typhaine Leservot ; Caribbean and Creole in New Orleans / Angel Adams Parham ; Creolizing Barak Obama / Valerie Loichot ; Richard Price or the Canadian from Petite-Anse: the potential and the limitations of a hybrid anthropology / Christina Kullberg -- Music. "Fightin' the future": rhythm and Creolization in the circum-Caribbean / Martin Munro ; Leaving the South: Frantz Fanon, modern jazz, and the rejection of negritude / Jeremy F. Lane ; The sorcerer and the quimboiseur: poetic intention in the works of Miles Davis and E<U+0301>douard Glissant / Jean-Luc Tamby ; Creolizing jazz, jazzing the tout-monde: jazz, gwoka and the poetics of relation / Jerome Camal -- Intertextualities: Faulkner, Glissant, Conde. Go slow now: saying the unsayable in E<U+0301>douard Glissant's reading of Faulkner / Michael Wiedorn ; E<U+0301>douard Glissant and the test of Faulkner's modernism / Hugues Azerad ; The theme of the ancestral crime in the novels of Faulkner, Glissant, and Conde / Celia Britton ; An American story / Yanick Lahens.
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Includes index.
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In English.
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Description based on print version record.
Title
American Creoles [electronic resource] : The Francophone Caribbean and the American South / edited by Martin Munro and Celia Britton.
Imprint
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Series
Francophone Postcolonial Studies ; new series, vol. 3