Creolization as cultural creativity / / edited by Robert Baron and Ana C. Cara

• Pubblicazione: Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2011; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 354 pages)
• Disciplina: 398.209763
• Soggetto topico: Creoles - Louisiana; Creoles - Caribbean Area; Creoles - Argentina; Folklore - Performance
• Altri autori: BaronRobert A CaraAna C
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Creolization; About Face: Rethinking Creolization; References; List of Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Creolization as cultural creativity
• ISBN: 1-283-24570-1; 9786613245700; 1-61703-107-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789644903321
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