... them to arrive at a vision of creole fiction that intersects with ethnography. Moving initially through Glissant’s Discours antillais , I then turn to the Éloge and other writings dealing with the genesis of créolité in fiction, observing how Confiant and Chamoiseau read anthropology...

... developments of Black American and Caribbean literature that highlight the cross-cultural relevance of Edmondson’s analysis. Creole Noise is timely and useful in contributing positively to such matters as border disputes on Caribbeanness, with regard to regional and diasporic writing, and to challenges...

... which literary expression negotiates between the primary languages of the region. In reading for the translative, writing that works between vernaculars or Creoles and dominant European languages, we can identify a distinctly Caribbean mode of expression. In this essay, translative analyses of Derek...

..., as in Chamoiseau’s writing. More important, it is not a straightforward identitarian movement: it both claims a creole identity and simultaneously questions that claim. The characterizations in Chamoiseau’s novels demonstrate that cultural alienation is not the opposite of creoleness but an inevitable part...

... works of francophone Caribbean writing. McCusker begins with the Éloge 's uneasy accommodation of Perse and an observation of the relative inaudibility of the béké today and interrogates the extent to which créolité has resonated with “white” creoles. She discusses a number of key cultural...

..., nonlinguistic forms, and spatial geography, along with orality, suggest that the author attempts to radically reconsider the way creole folk culture should be translated into writing. © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 Translation is as much a cultural as a linguistic concern. Whether using the term in its...

...” of texts by Derek Walcott, Velma Pollard, and Dionne Brand as an alternative to the traditionally monolingual model of reading. Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020 Caribbean literature translation reading Creole writing We need a new vocabulary for reading works. —Rebecca Walkowitz...

... and family because he was always saying goodbye. And there you have it: “It’s up to you. I, the Slippery One, wrote it first; now you have to write it again. Goodbye.” He was usually willing to answer a few final questions about meanings too grounded in Creole for me to penetrate. But he was also rather...

...-delsham-ont-decide-de-profaner-le-cap-110-au-diamant-par-camille-chauvet-2 . As for Bernabé, see, for example, his untitled 2011 article featured on the Tous Créoles! website, www.touscreoles.fr/2011/06/22/jean-bernabe-analyse-tous-creoles . “L'association Tous Créoles [ sic ],” he writes, “me semble...

..., reads Traversée de la mangrove largely for its representation of authentic Creole culture and chastizes Condé for what he sees as her failure to represent an “authentic” Creole voice. He writes, “[some] words of your vocabulary . . . fail to invoke in me anything besides the fl avor of other...

... Rickford, and undertaking her own detailed research, Edmondson argues that the history of Creole writing from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century is not one linear tradition but two entwined traditions that have become “delinked”: a “racist satirical tradition,” to which the likes of Matthews...

... it arrives. . . . “Why’s your mother talk so funny?” your neighbor insists. 4 A hundred other contemporary literary examples could be added to this small, brilliant sample. As Edmondson argues, “Caribbean writers of all ethnic backgrounds are now expected to write, at least in part, in Creole...

.... It was a startling sensation for me to realize that I actually liked reading the writing of so many racists. In the self-regarding declarations of Mathews I hear the stirrings of a Caribbean language. In the vicious anti-Black ventriloquizings of the White Creole letter writers who mockingly called themselves...

... that draws provocative conclusions about genre and narrative in the creole novel in response to which I would like to situate Confiant's writing. For Apter, créolité in the novel refers less to the political forms of narrative hybridity with which it is generally associated and, instead, speaks primarily...

... to facilitate the systematic denial of housing rights. Why are linguistic rights viewed differently? And, of course, linguistic rights include not only full access to French for the entire population but also full access to and valorization of Haitian Creole. Most Haitian authors writing today use both...

... conflicts of Martinique, offers insight into the stakes of representing Creole speech as distinct from European languages. “From the perspective of the conflict between Creole and French, in which one has thus far evolved at the expense of the other,” he writes, “we can state that the only possible strategy...

... not be as much of a surprise as it seems to be for Edmondson. 26 But when she asks, “What happened?” (162), is it the accolades for this unique new English, as compared to the more canonical writing of the above writers, that merits the wonder? The current market tendency to remove Creole glossaries is both...

... in text. 166  |  The Audacity of Faith: Creole Recitations Explained the Politics of Culture (2004), Evelyn O’Callaghan’s Women Writing the West Indies, 1804– 1939: “A Hot Place, Belonging to Us” (2004), Alison Donnell’s Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature (2006), and Harvey...

..., leading him to believe in the viability of replacing the cultural identities of the creole schoolchildren through a “universal” education. “Le souffle vibrant du savoir et notre être créole semblaient en indépassable contradiction,” the narrator writes, but the school children’s use of magic, through...

... of the latter half of the nineteenth century. (xiii) Creole Recitations absolutely answers Smith’s initial question, delving into the details within and behind Thomas’s published writings, as well as those of a number of his antago- nists, collaborators, and other contemporaries. It tells the story...