03337nam 2200673 a 450 991046144020332120200520144314.01-283-24570-197866132457001-61703-107-0(CKB)2670000000113859(EBL)766707(OCoLC)749264625(SSID)ssj0000535519(PQKBManifestationID)11373557(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535519(PQKBWorkID)10522098(PQKB)10539604(StDuBDS)EDZ0000206497(MiAaPQ)EBC766707(MdBmJHUP)muse852(Au-PeEL)EBL766707(CaPaEBR)ebr10498094(CaONFJC)MIL324570(EXLCZ)99267000000011385920110120d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCreolization as cultural creativity[electronic resource] /edited by Robert Baron and Ana C. CaraJackson University Press of Mississippi20111 online resource (367 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61703-106-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 CreolizationAmalgams and Mosaics, Syncretisms and Reinterpretations: Reading Herskovits and Contemporary Creolists for Metaphors of CreolizationAbout Face: Rethinking Creolization; References; List of Contributors; IndexGlobal 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. 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, RCreolesLouisianaFolkloreCreolesCaribbean AreaFolkloreCreolesArgentinaFolkloreFolklorePerformanceElectronic books.CreolesCreolesCreolesFolklorePerformance.398.209763Baron Robert A104436Cara Ana C946153MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461440203321Creolization as cultural creativity2137550UNINA