...Wendy Knepper Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Colonization, Creolization, and Globalization: The Art and Ruses of Bricolage Wendy Knepper Antillean art is this restoration of our shattered histories, our shards of vocabulary, our archipelago becoming a synonym for pieces...

...Heather Smyth Small Axe Incorporated 2002 “Roots beyond Roots”: Heteroglossia and Feminist Creolization in Myal and Crossing the Mangrove Heather Smyth continual preoccupation in Caribbean literary criticism has been the creolization of culture and language. Each...

...H. Adlai Murdoch Taking the publication of Éloge de la créolité as a starting point, a number of key questions can be posed: What was the discursive and thematic goal of the Éloge ? How does it distinguish itself from creolization? And how do we assess its political stance and its sociocultural...

... and the more historically grounded use of creolization in the anglophone world. After outlining the various criticisms of the Éloge expressed in the author's 1995 essay “Shadowboxing in the Mangrove” (coauthored by Sally Price), it sketches in a history of the use of the creolization metaphor in the anglophone...

..., and Césaire's works in particular, as a movement and not an essence. It is a reflection on Césaire's latest work, Nègre je suis, nègre je resterai ( Negro I Am, Negro I Shall Remain ), which is a response to those who considered Negritude something of the past to be superseded by the movement of creolization...

... Axe, Inc. 2010 Translated by Nadève Ménard Original French available at http://www.smallaxe.net/smallaxe/ Creole Japan; or, The Vagaries of Creolization Michaël F. Ferrier You feel from such a wind that it has finally made it around the world and linked up the archipelagos...

...Simona Bertacco This essay weaves together translation and postcolonial literary studies to propose a translational model of reading for Caribbean literature. Translation and creolization provide the conceptual and aesthetic lens for reading Caribbean literary texts: If translation is an apt model...

... transformation (creolization). These issues include the constitution of “knowledge” and “evidence,” the value and meaning of empirical research, the relationship between the construction of experience and the construction of a discipline, and the ways that authority and legitimacy are established and maintained...

... are apparently exotic or marginal peoples, such as the Saramaka Maroons of Suriname, truly part of the Caribbean world? While considering long-standing debates about African continuities vs. New World creativity, and discussing what Michel-Rolph Trouillot has called “the miracle of creolization,” the essay draws...

... and animated by metaphors of creolization that derive from the archipelago’s geology, geography, and history. Ultimately, “Caribbean Man,” while immured in the nationalist sensibility of the 1970s, eschews a reductive nationalist politics for a more expansive notion of nation and community akin to Wilson...

...Faith Smith This essay uses the three interlocutors' reflections to return to Creole Recitations , and to reconsider Thomas's nineteenth century as an arena for thinking about Caribbean male intellectuals' self-fashioning and desire, diaspora and degeneration, the sexual politics of creolization...

... staged by the artist, Boyce constructs a pseudo-documentary, pseudo-pantomime collage of events that subtly reveals the multiple dimensions of this creolized spectacle, deliberately building up layers of interpretation and presentation that seek to identify, historicize and problematize these cultural...

... and postmodernist techniques of recontextualization, such as montage, in Caribbean contemporary art (and specifically in Kempadoo's Ghosting ), from a postcolonial and creolized context. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 Caribbean women artists historical memory montage There is a growing critical attention...

... short novel Nothing’s Mat (2011) to open discursive space for individual and collective identities illegible within dominant theories of Caribbean literature such as pluralism or creolization: supernatural elements more readily identifiable in Latin American magical realism, a Pan-African vision decades...

... elegance. Her embodied wor(l)ds convey a powerful message that coolly brushes aside middle-class timidity and conformism to inspire postcolonial people not just in the Caribbean but across the global South, empowering people to wield the beauty of creolized language, music, and movement as decolonial...

... elaboration of two of Wynter’s conceptualizations: indigenization as an alternative to creolization and abduction as a kind of theorizing out from Caribbean reasonings. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 Sylvia Wynter creolization antiblackness Caribbean feminism C. L. R. James You may as well stop...

..., the trope of the isle, visuality, and creolization—and investigating the ways these four approaches to the Caribbean are articulated to each other clarifies some of the issues at stake in defining Caribbean studies as a contemporary epistemological field. In contrast, the essay poses alternatives: maritime...

...Keithley Woolward Directly engaging the recent manifesto and essay collection calling for a world literature in French, this article considers the creolized, hybrid forms of geopolitical and discursive belonging of the Francophone Caribbean participants as a useful starting point for such a project...

... du Tout-Monde (1997). De cette philosophie de la relation découle une Poétique du divers (1995) dont les catégories unissent à une vision esthétique du monde, une éthique de l'action politique. Diversité, métissage, « creolization » : à une saisie de l'identité comme « identité-souche », pivotante...

... problems taken up in Eloge into a thoroughly creolized novel that deals with the hybridized messiness of everyday life, Confiant presents a text that ethnographically allegorizes its own conditions of production. This allegorization mobilizes a process the essay calls “interdisciplinary translation,” which...