Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dynamics of Language, Literature, and Identity

by Kathleen M. Balutansky (Editor), Marie-Agnes Sourieau (Editor)

Overview

The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary.

The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike.

The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781947372016
Publisher:	University Press of Florida
Publication date:	11/01/2017
Series:	Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	206
Sales rank:	876,249
File size:	750 KB

What People are Saying About This

Gustavo Pellon

Provides a truly pan-Caribbean vision of creolization, covering as it does the Dutch-speaking, English-speaking, French-speaking, and Spanish-speaking countries.

Editorial Reviews

Brings together prominent writers from the English-, French-, Spanish-, and Dutch-speaking Caribbean in an examination of creolization and its impact on the region's literary production. Contributors are engaged in redefining Caribbean identity and aesthetics, and their reflections on this process trace the evolution of a dynamic regional literature and identity out of materials displaced amid the movement of colonial empires and nationalistic and economic upheavals. They address controversial issues including racism in mestizaje cultures, opposing theories of history and development of Papiamento and Haitian Creole, and the role of Creole languages in the production of consciousness and literature. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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