Tag: Édouard Glissant

  • American Creoles: The Francophone Caribbean and the American South Liverpool University Press May 2012 256 pages 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 9781846317538 Edited by: Celia Britton, Professor of French and Francophone Studies University College London Martin Munro, Professor of French and Francophone Studies Florida State University The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are…

  • Adlai Murdoch offers a detailed rereading of five major contemporary French Caribbean writers–Glissant, Condé, Maximin, Dracius-Pinalie, and Chamoiseau. Emphasizing the role of narrative in fashioning the cultural and political doubleness of Caribbean Creole identity, Murdoch shows how these authors actively rewrite their own colonially driven history.

  • Creolization, colonial citizenship(s) and degeneracy: A critique of selected histories of Sierra Leone and South Africa Current Sociology Volume 59, Number 5 (September 2011) pages 635-654 DOI: 10.1177/0011392111408678 Zimitri Erasmus, Senior Lecturer in Sociology University of Cape Town This work examines the nexus between creolization, colonial citizenship(s) and discourses of degeneration. It focuses on two…