Questioning Creole
Creolisation Discourses in Caribbean Culture
Published on 1. June 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-0-85255-477-7 (ISBN)
Description
In this volume, scholars take the debate on Creolisation and its manifestations beyond the discipline of history and into debates on ethnicity, identity, class, the economics and politics of slavery and freedom, language, music, cookery and religion.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85255-477-7 (9780852554777)
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Content
Introduction - I BARBADIAN GENESIS The highway to vision: this sea our nexus by Mary Morgan - II CREOLISATION & CREOLE: DEFINITIONS, MEANINGS & MODELS CRITIQUED Creolisation & Creole societies: a cultural nationalistic view of Caribbean social history by O. Nigel Bolland - Creole: the problem of definition by Carolyn Allen III CLASS, GENDER, ETHNICITY & IDENTITY Enslaved Africans & their expectations of slave life in the Americas: towards a reconsideration of models of 'creolisation' by Paul Lovejoy & David Trotman - Race & Creole ethnicity in the Caribbean by Percy C. Hintzen - Contestations over culture, class, gender & identity in Trinidad & Tobago: 'the little tradition' by Rhoda Reddock - The 'creolisation' of Indian women in Trinidad by Patricia Mohammed - 'Yuh know bout coo-coo? Where yuh know bout coo-coo?': language & representation, creolisation & confusion in 'Indian cuisine' by Veronica Gregg IV CREOLISATION & CARIBBEAN ECONOMY, SOCIETY & POLITICS IN SLAVERY & FREEDOM Questioning Creole: domestic producers & Jamaica's plantation economy by Verene A. Shepherd - Creolisation in action: the slave labour elite & anti-slavery in Barbados by Hilary McD. Beckles - 'Driber tan mi side': creolisation & the labour process in St Kitts-Nevis, 1810-1905 by Glen L Richards - The politics of Samuel Clarke: black Creole politician in free Jamaica, 1851-1865 by Swithin Wilmot V CREOLISATION & CARIBBEAN CULTURAL FORMS Creolisation processes in linguistic, artistic & material cultures by Maureen Warner-Lewis - African sacredness & Caribbean cultural forms by Lucie Pradel - Hip-hopping across cultures: crossing over from reggae to rap and back by Carolyn Cooper VI POETIC DISCOURSES Two Poems: 'Angel of Dreamers' & 'My Uncle' by Lorna Goodison - Po'm for Kamau by Jean Small