Search Results for creole identity

...Vivian Nun Halloran Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Race, Creole, and National Identities in Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and Phillips’s Cambridge Vivian Nun Halloran As postmodern historical novels dramatizing slavery and its legacy in the anglophone Carib- bean islands, Jean Rhys’s...

... from Haiti? (Part 2 of “Eulogizing Creoleness? Rereading Éloge de la créolité ” will appear in Small Axe 55, in March 2018.) © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 creolization Jean Bernabé Patrick Chamoiseau Raphaël Confiant identity politics The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication...

... or articulated in opposition (or in parallel) to it, illuminate the (lack of) development in béké identity politics over the last quarter century. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 Antilles Marie-Reine de Jaham Roger de Jaham Tous Créoles! Writing in 2007, Raphaël Confiant, one of the three signatories...

... that already in the 1870s, Thomas defined creole identity as normative and national in part by contrasting it to Indian and other ethnic identities. Smith illuminates the significant role women and womanhood played in the construction of creole identity and respectable middle-class nationalism. As importantly...

..., 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...

... referencing those of Julien's works that directly address the Caribbean, this article asks if they are `relevant' to a Caribbean audience. Or does their art gallery provenance and anticonventional form, along with the challenge they pose to the pieties of nationalism, gender, and creole identity, push them...

... to relate, in that same piece, her outrage as a schoolgirl at the other- ing of the Creole Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre: “I couldn’t stomach the way I had been relegated to the attic” (“Grandma’s Estate,” p. 185). (Cliff , in Claiming an Identity, also relates directly to the Brontë fi gure: “To imagine I...

... further blurs the distinct, rational line between French and creole identity and culture. During the first phase of references to magic in Chamoiseau’s memoir, the terms magie and magique are used repeatedly by the narrator at the extradiegetic level as a rhetoric of wonder and mystery...

... and nation in independence through the national motto. It contends that an aspiration to brownness was embedded in the identity politics emerging therein, which served to obscure the racial order and maintain the subordinate place of blackness in postcolonial Jamaica. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 Creole...

.... For all quotes from the Éloge , italics are original. On critiques of the créolistes ’ writing in French, see Chris Bongie, Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998), 346. Here Bongie brings to a culmination his reading...

...–87) and, second, with overcoming this exteriority by dialectically writing it into a vision of postcolonial literary history that would account for the contemporary lived realities of creoleness as a nontotalizable identity ( EC , 82, 89). With its focus on the related categories of lived experience...

...: Liverpool University Press, 2007), 1. 4 See Peter Hallward, Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing between the Singular and the Specific (Manchester: Manchester Uni- versity Press, 2001); and Chris Bongie, Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature (Stanford, CA...

... construct their homes in the new world of the Caribbean? And more crucially, how did white women from the West Indies conceive of home in the new, “unhomely” space of the metropole? And what can their narratives tell us about the construction of a creole identity and the experience...

... of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation, and British Society at the End of Slavery (2010). Joscelyn Gardner is a visual artist whose prints and multimedia installations explore Creole identity from a postcolonial feminist perspective. Her work has been exhibited widely in Europe, the United States...

... was in line with all the other fake-but-real, “White”-but-not-White-British identities who populate my story. I argue that literary Creole poems such as “Hi! de Buckra” should be read with the understanding that these are White Creole masquerades. But now Watson throws a wrench into that thesis by doing yet...

...' in this essay extemporizes on Edward Said's concept in Orientalism. Othering excludes Asians from the creole project of nationalisms in the region, conferring instead a script of antiquity and cultural spirituality that Asians have colluded with for negotiating difference. This collusion comes with its own...

..., on the other hand, traces the differential etymological development of the notion of creoleness using Kamau Brathwaite's foundational The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, 1770–1820 . 35 In the Anglo and French Caribbean, creole is linked to the Afro-Caribbean identities that were forged...

... information. Joscelyn Gardner is a Caribbean visual artist working primarily with printmaking and multi-media installation whose practice focuses on her (white) Creole identity from a post- colonial feminist perspective. Her work has been exhibited widely in solo and group...

... of an enunciative framework for cultural identity, it would seem apposite to begin by attempting to locate the provenance of the very concept of the term creole , thereby hopefully rendering its links to both créolité and creolization that much more transparent. 48 Jocelyne Guilbault, Zouk: World Music...

... French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University. H. A dlai M urdoch is a professor of French and francophone literature and the director of Africana studies at Tufts University. He is the author of Creole Identity in the French Caribbean Novel (2001) and Creolizing the Metropole...