American Creoles, The Francophone Caribbean and the American South
Year
2012
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Type
BOOK
Category
Literary Criticism
Language
English
Pages
265
ISBN
978-1-84631-753-8
Link
Last Update
28-Nov-2025
Keywords
Language & Literature
Description
In American Creoles, leading authorities examine the cultural, social, and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South. The essays focus on issues of history, language, politics, and culture in various forms and consider figures as diverse as Barack Obama, Frantz Fanon, Miles Davis, James Brown, Edouard Glissant, William Faulkner, and Lafcadio Hearn. Exploring the ideas of Creole culture and creolization—terms rooted in the history of contact between European and African people and cultures in the Americas—the essays provide productive ways to conceive of the larger Caribbean as a single cultural and historical entity.
