...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...

...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...

... 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...

...Justin Izzo This essay develops an anthropological genealogy of the créolité literary project. Examining works by Édouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant, the author studies how the créolistes read ethnography and the social sciences into a revitalized creole literary history...

... and inauthentic. Literary critic Maximilien Laroche goes further than Ascencio: On sait en effet que de par le fait de la diglossie haïtienne la différence culturelle du français et du créole est aussi une différence sociale de classes. Seuls ceux qui sont passés par l'école parlent, lisent et écrivent le...

... multilingualism decolonial Creole When words in different languages appear alongside one another in the same literary text, this juxtaposition offers an opportunity to examine linguistic relationships. In the case of the Caribbean, the region’s history of contact between colonial and Creole language...

...Nadi Edwards This essay examines Carolyn Cooper’s intellectual project as a practice of noisy disturbance that anchors her conceptualization of Jamaican literary and cultural discourses within the concrete materiality and exteriority of the island’s historical, cultural, socioeconomic...

...Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo Apart from the fact that it is one of very few book-length studies of a Caribbean-based British Caribbean black intellectual from the nineteenth century, and one of even fewer written by a literary studies scholar, Faith L. Smith's Creole Recitations stands out because...

... Dézafi—the first novel published in Haitian Creole—which she sums up succinctly thus: while this text represents “a de facto challenge to dismissals of the literary viability of Haiti’s popular idiom—of the latter’s capacity to sustain narrative or express abstract ideas,” it also “offers...

... in several languages or in a creole language not only revolutionizes that traditional model but also unhinges established ways of reading and of critical interpretation. What literary model might be unlocked for Caribbean literatures if we stopped assuming monolingualism as a constitutive feature...

... understood that Western literary heroes such as Lancelot, Werther, or Thérèse Raquin could not take shape in this universe. They were at the same time too simple and too pure, or rather they were superior to their own personal history whereas the creole hero was everybody and anybody.” Although by the end...

... and his interlocutors at the time saw as important, and through careful reading explicates their key terms, such as negro and creole. In analyz- ing those public stories and debates, Creole Recitations revises the dominant narratives of Caribbean political, intellectual, and literary history...

... would, in different ways, have to contend with McTurk’s minstrel legacy. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 “Quow” (Michael McTurk) Creole poetry literary minstrelsy early Caribbean literature historical poetics The early phases...

...—a failed mimicry of the master’s speech—the book nevertheless overturns several assumptions not just of the public but also of scholarly discourse regarding the unique formation of Anglo-Creole literary history. Creole organizes speech as a blast of sound. —Édouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse...

... of Caribbean and creole cultures, if it and the very concept of creoleness have a future or now appear merely anachronistic. The essays may generally be divided into four broad categories: intellectual contexts, politics, the Éloge as literary text, and ethnographic readings. But the complex...

...Lucy Swanson This essay examines the second installment of Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau’s trilogy Une enfance créole , using Chemin-d’école to consider how writers from the Caribbean may deploy magic in their texts in alternative ways to the magical realist mode, which critics have argued...

... of these systems despite the very different lexical borrowings on which they depend. 38 The emphasis on Creole shows how a focus on translation can address some key issues in literary and cultural production in the Caribbean: Why, for example, are some authors exported via translation while others remain known...

... to recuperate Rhys or Wide Sargasso Sea as touchstones within Caribbean literary studies. 4 Both, of course, already enjoy that status but with considerable caveats, including Rhys’s white creole background and expatriate relationship to Dominica, the island where she was born, and the fact that the novel...

... Sun has nothing, at first glance, that could make it an objet créole, quite the contrary. The case remains, however, that through a whole string of publications and varied events (academic, sociological, literary, philosophic, and media-related), the word creole in Japan has...