... © 2018 Small Axe, Inc. 2016 créolité creole literature Patrick Chamoiseau Raphaël Confiant Édouard Glissant ethnography It is perhaps fitting to approach the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Éloge de la créolité by moving first through Édouard Glissant’s Discours...

...Supriya M. Nair This essay discusses Belinda Edmondson’s Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance (2022). The author shows how Edmondson challenges Standard English dismissals of anglophone Caribbean vernaculars as an inferior form of English and reorients the historical...

...Tim Watson This essay is a response to Belinda Edmondson’s Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance (2022), which is an excellent history of literary and performative Creole in the anglophone Caribbean, tracing its roots back to the work songs of enslaved African laborers...

...Barbara Lalla This essay reviews Belinda Edmondson’s literary yet cross-disciplinary study Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance (2022), which questions the Blackness of orality versus the Whiteness of narrative in the growth of Caribbean literature. Caribbean language...

...Belinda Edmondson In response to three discussions of the author’s Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance (2022), this essay raises questions about the meaning of authenticity in the production of literary Creole in the anglophone Caribbean from the eighteenth century...

...Christina Kullberg In French Caribbean literature, translations from Creole to French, along with the inclusion of Creole orality in novels written in French, constitute a broader form of intracultural translation that expose problematic tensions between sameness and difference. The essay starts...

...Martin Munro; Celia Britton This essay introduces part 1 of a special section on the créolité movement—“Eulogizing Creoleness? Rereading Éloge de la créolité ”—in which a variety of essays explore and assess the impact, twenty-five-plus years on, of the controversial manifesto by Patrick Chamoiseau...

...Kavita Ashana Singh While models of creoleness in the Caribbean reinscribe a theoretical monolingualism, thinking about regional literature as multilingual instead allows for an understanding of the ongoing relationality, conflictuality, and creativity produced in the translative modes through...

... literatures in a comparative Caribbbean studies framework. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 colonialism Caribbean confederation 1898 criollismo creole I began my engagement in Caribbean studies precisely by expanding my horizons beyond my specific interest in Puerto Rican literature and by proposing...

... would, in different ways, have to contend with McTurk’s minstrel legacy. B.Etherington@westernsydney.edu.au Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 “Quow” (Michael McTurk) Creole poetry literary minstrelsy early Caribbean literature historical poetics The early phases...

... explicitly connects the Haitian and Dominican poetry in the volume to European literary traditions, a focus that both defers to colonial literary history and excludes Creole language and literature. While Creole is absent from the structural organization of the text, it does appear within some...

... combinatory process. See Chris Bongie, Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998), 58–59. 2 Ibid., 190. 1 Emily Apter, The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press...

... West Indian islands insupportable for all but the francophile.” 28 Like the élogistes ' efforts to promote Créole, Wie Eegie Sanie's efforts to promote Sranantongo, their own creole language, led to a blossoming of literature in that language—everything from poetry and folklore to songs...

... Izzo, “‘A Question to Be Lived’: Creoleness and Ethnographic Fiction,” Small Axe , no. 55 (March 2018): 137–46. 8 See Beverley Ormerod, “Magic Realism in Contemporary French Caribbean Literature: Ideology or Literary Diversion?,” Australian Journal of French Studies 34, no. 2 (1997): 216–26...

...-speaking context. 6 See Jan Voorhoeve and Ursy M. Lichtveld, eds., Creole Drum: Anthology of Creole Literature in Suriname (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1975), 66. 7 We were systematically trained in languages—English, French, German, Latin, Greek—to be able to carefully understand...

...) and Lettres créoles. , e Éloge seeks to articulate a more authentic Creole Caribbean identity and cultural politics, and proposes that this creoleness and Creole literature will come about by a revaluation of the Creole language: “We did conquer it, this French language . . . we inhabited...

... Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, “A Post-colonial Linguistic Theory: Creole Continuum,” in The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-colonial Literatures (London: Routledge, 1989), 43–50. 51 Sakai, “Dislocation in Translation,” 175 (emphasis mine). 52 Ashcroft, Caliban’s Language...

... for years. But it is actually a myth that texts in Creole are more inclusive of the general Haitian population. Do Haitians who are truly monolingual read literature in Creole? To my knowledge, there has not been a study evaluating whether or not authors' readership differs according to the language used...

... 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...

...Souleymane Bachir Diagne We need to reassess our reading of Negritude literature. Justice is not done to the literary, philosophical, and political movement founded by Aimé Césaire, Léon-Gontran Damas, and Léopold Sédar Senghor when it is simply considered an essentialist reversal of colonial...