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UNINA9910461440203321 |
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Titolo |
Creolization as cultural creativity [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Robert Baron and Ana C. Cara |
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-24570-1 |
9786613245700 |
1-61703-107-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (367 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Creoles - Louisiana |
Creoles - Caribbean Area |
Creoles - Argentina |
Folklore - Performance |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Creolization as Cultural Creativity; Metaphors of Incommensurability; Monde Créole: The Cultural World of French Louisiana Creoles and the Creolization of World Cultures; Creolization, Nam, Absent Loved Ones, Watchers, and Serious Play with "Toys"; Ritual Piracy: Or Creolization with an Attitude; Africa's Creole Drum: The Gumbe as Vector and Signifier of Trans-African Creolization; Techniques of Creolization; Creole Talk: The Poetics and Politics of Argentine Verbal Art; Villes, Poèmes: The Postwar Routes of Caribbean Creolization |
Amalgams and Mosaics, Syncretisms and Reinterpretations: Reading Herskovits and Contemporary Creolists for Metaphors of CreolizationAbout Face: Rethinking Creolization; References; List of Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Global in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, Creolization as Cultural Creativity explores the expressive forms and performances that come into being when cultures encounter one another. |
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Creolization is presented as a powerful marker of identity in the postcolonial creole societies of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the southwest Indian Ocean region, as well as a universal process that can occur anywhere cultures come into contact. An extraordinary number of cultures from Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, the southern United States, Trinidad and Tobago, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, R |
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