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Becoming Like Creoles

Author : Curtiss Paul DeYoung
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506455573
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Like Creoles written by Curtiss Paul DeYoung and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Caribbean authors of In Praise of Creoleness (�loge de la Cr‚olit‚) exclaim, "Neither Europeans, nor Africans, nor Asians, we proclaim ourselves to be Creoles." Creoleness, therefore, becomes a metaphor for humanity in all its diversity. Unique among the many images useful for discussing diversity, Creoleness is formed within a history of injustice, oppression, and empire. Creolization offers a way of envisioning a future through the interplay between cultural diversity, injustice and oppression, and intersectionality. People of faith must embrace such metaphors and practices to be relevant and effective for ministry in the 21st century. Using biblical exposition in conversation with present day Creole metaphors and cultural research, Becoming Like Creoles seeks to awaken and prepare followers of Jesus to live and minister in a world where injustice is real and cultural diversity is rapidly increasing. This book will equip ministry readers to embrace a Creole process, becoming culturally competent and social justice focused, whether they are emerging from a history of injustice or they are heirs of privilege.

Becoming Creole

Author : Melissa A. Johnson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 081359698X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Creole written by Melissa A. Johnson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the reader into the lived experience of Afro-Caribbean people who call the watery lowlands of Belize home, Melissa A. Johnson traces Belizean Creole peoples' relationships with the plants, animals, water, and soils around them, and analyzes how these relationships intersect with transnational racial assemblages.

Exiles at Home

Author : Shirley Elizabeth Thompson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674023512
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Exiles at Home written by Shirley Elizabeth Thompson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Orleans has always captured our imagination as an exotic city in its racial ambiguity and pursuit of les bons temps. Despite its image as a place apart, the city played a key role in nineteenth-century America as a site for immigration and pluralism, the quest for equality, and the centrality of self-making. In both the literary imagination and the law, creoles of color navigated life on a shifting color line. As they passed among various racial categories and through different social spaces, they filtered for a national audience the meaning of the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution of 1804, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and de jure segregation. Shirley Thompson offers a moving study of a world defined by racial and cultural double consciousness. In tracing the experiences of creoles of color, she illuminates the role ordinary Americans played in shaping an understanding of identity and belonging.

Becoming American in Creole New Orleans, 1896–1949

Author : Darryl Barthé, Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807175471
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Becoming American in Creole New Orleans, 1896–1949 written by Darryl Barthé, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensive scholarship has emerged within the last twenty-five years on the role of Louisiana Creoles in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, yet academic work on the history of Creoles in New Orleans after the Civil War and into the twentieth century remains sparse. Darryl Barthé Jr.’s Becoming American in Creole New Orleans moves the history of New Orleans’ Creole community forward, documenting the process of “becoming American” through Creoles’ encounters with Anglo-American modernism. Barthé tracks this ethnic transformation through an interrogation of New Orleans’s voluntary associations and social sodalities, as well as its public and parochial schools, where Creole linguistic distinctiveness faded over the twentieth century because of English-only education and the establishment of Anglo-American economic hegemony. Barthé argues that despite the existence of ethnic repression, the transition from Creole to American identity was largely voluntary as Creoles embraced the economic opportunities afforded to them through learning English. “Becoming American” entailed the adoption of a distinctly American language and a distinctly American racialized caste system. Navigating that caste system was always tricky for Creoles, who had existed in between French and Spanish color lines that recognized them as a group separate from Europeans, Africans, and Amerindians even though they often shared kinship ties with all of these groups. Creoles responded to the pressures associated with the demands of the American caste system by passing as white people (completely or situationally) or, more often, redefining themselves as Blacks. Becoming American in Creole New Orleans offers a critical comparative analysis of “Creolization” and “Americanization,” social processes that often worked in opposition to each another during the nineteenth century and that would continue to frame the limits of Creole identity and cultural expression in New Orleans until the mid-twentieth century. As such, it offers intersectional engagement with subjects that have historically fallen under the purview of sociology, anthropology, and critical theory, including discourses on whiteness, métissage/métisajé, and critical mixed-race theory.

If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That

Author : Thomas Klingler
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080715590X
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That written by Thomas Klingler and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That, by Thomas Klingler, is an in-depth study of the Creole language spoken in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, a community situated on the west bank of the Mississippi River above Baton Rouge that dates back to the early eighteenth century. The first comprehensive grammatical description of this particular variety of Louisiana Creole, Klingler's work is timely indeed, since most Creole speakers in the Pointe Coupee area are over sixty-five and the language is not being passed on to younger generations. It preserves and explains an important yet little understood part of America's cultural heritage that is rapidly disappearing. The heart of the book is a detailed morphosyntactic description based on some 150 hours of interviews with Pointe Coupee Creole speakers. Each grammatical feature is amply illustrated with contextual examples, and Klingler's descriptive framework will facilitate comparative research. The author also provides historical and sociolinguistic background information on the region, examining economic, demographic, and social conditions that contributed to the formation and spread of Creole in Louisiana. Pointe Coupee Creole is unusual, and in some cases unique, because of such factors as the parish's early exposure to English, its rapid development of a plantation economy, and its relative insulation from Cajun French. The volume concludes with transcriptions and English translations of Creole folk tales and of Klingler's conversations with Pointe Coupee's residents, a treasure trove of cultural and linguistic raw data. This kind of rarely printed material will be essential in preserving Creole in the future. Encylopedic in its approach and featuring a comprehensive bibliography, If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That is a rich resource for those interested in the development of Louisiana Creole and in Francophony.

Bastard Tongues

Author : Derek Bickerton
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 1429930306
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Bastard Tongues written by Derek Bickerton and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Do Isolated Creole Languages Tend to Have Similar Grammatical Structures? Bastard Tongues is an exciting, firsthand story of scientific discovery in an area of research close to the heart of what it means to be human—what language is, how it works, and how it passes from generation to generation, even where historical accidents have made normal transmission almost impossible. The story focuses on languages so low in the pecking order that many people don't regard them as languages at all—Creole languages spoken by descendants of slaves and indentured laborers in plantation colonies all over the world. The story is told by Derek Bickerton, who has spent more than thirty years researching these languages on four continents and developing a controversial theory that explains why they are so similar to one another. A published novelist, Bickerton (once described as "part scholar, part swashbuckling man of action") does not present his findings in the usual dry academic manner. Instead, you become a companion on his journey of discovery. You learn things as he learned them, share his disappointments and triumphs, explore the exotic locales where he worked, and meet the colorful characters he encountered along the way. The result is a unique blend of memoir, travelogue, history, and linguistics primer, appealing to anyone who has ever wondered how languages grow or what it's like to search the world for new knowledge.

Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions

Author : Jane Landers
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674035917
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions written by Jane Landers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group of African-born and African-descended individuals transformed themselves from slaves into active agents of their lives and times. Through prodigious archival research, Landers alters our vision of the breadth and extent of the Age of Revolution, and our understanding of its actors.

Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country

Author : Carl A. Brasseaux
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604736089
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country written by Carl A. Brasseaux and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-01-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first serious historical examination of a distinctive multiracial society of Louisiana

Becoming Cajun, Becoming American

Author : Maria Hebert-Leiter
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807142573
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Cajun, Becoming American written by Maria Hebert-Leiter and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From antebellum times, Louisiana's unique multipartite society included a legal and social space for intermediary racial groups such as Acadians, Creoles, and Creoles of Color. In Becoming Cajun, Becoming American, Maria Hebert-Leiter explores how American writers have portrayed Acadian culture over the past 150 years. Combining a study of Acadian literary history with an examination of Acadian ethnic history in light of recent social theories, she offers insight into the Americanization process experienced by Acadians -- who over time came to be known as Cajuns -- during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Hebert-Leiter examines the entire history of the Acadian, or Cajun, in American literature, beginning with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Evangeline and the writings of George Washington Cable, including his novel Bonaventure. The cultural complexity of Acadian and Creole identities led many writers to rely on stereotypes in Acadian characters, but as Hebert-Leiter shows, the ambiguity of Louisiana's class and racial divisions also allowed writers to address complex and controversial -- and sometimes taboo -- subjects. She emphasizes the fiction of Kate Chopin, whose short stories contain Acadian characters accepted as white Americans during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Representations of the Acadian in literature reflect the Acadians' path towards assimilation, as they celebrated their differences while still adopting an all-American notion of self. In twentieth-century writing, Acadian figures came to be more often called Cajun, and increasingly outsiders perceived them not simply as exotic or mythic beings but as complex persons who fit into traditional American society while reflecting its cultural diversity. Hebert-Leiter explores this transition in Ernest Gaines's novel A Gathering of Old Men and James Lee Burke's detective novels featuring Dave Robicheaux. She also discusses the works of Ada Jack Carver, Elma Godchaux, Shirley Ann Grau, and other writers. From Longfellow through Tim Gautreaux, Acadian and Cajun literature captures the stages of this fascinating cultural dynamism, making it a pivotal part of any history of American ethnicity and of Cajun culture in particular. Concise and accessible, Becoming Cajun, Becoming American provides an excellent introduction to American Acadian and Cajun literature.

French, Cajun, Creole, Houma

Author : Carl A. Brasseaux
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807130362
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book French, Cajun, Creole, Houma written by Carl A. Brasseaux and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, ethnographers have recognized south Louisiana as home to perhaps the most complex rural society in North America. More than a dozen French-speaking immigrant groups have been identified there, Cajuns and white Creoles being the most famous. In this guide to the amazing social, cultural, and linguistic variation within Louisiana's French-speaking region, Carl A. Brasseaux presents an overview of the origins and evolution of all the Francophone communities. Brasseaux examines the impact of French immigration on Louisiana over the past three centuries. He shows how this once-undesirable outpost of the French empire became colonized by individuals ranging from criminals to entrepreneurs who went on to form a multifaceted society -- one that, unlike other American melting pots, rests upon a French cultural foundation. A prolific author and expert on the region, Brasseaux offers readers an entertaining history of how these diverse peoples created south Louisiana's famous vibrant culture, interacting with African Americans, Spaniards, and Protestant Anglos and encountering influences from southern plantation life and the Caribbean. He explores in detail three still cohesive components in the Francophone melting pot, each one famous for having retained a distinct identity: the Creole communities, both black and white; the Cajun people; and the state's largest concentration of French speakers -- the Houma tribe. A product of thirty years' research, French, Cajun, Creole, Houma provides a reliable and understandable guide to the ethnic roots of a region long popular as an international tourist attraction.

Creoles of South Louisiana

Author : Elista Istre
Publisher : University of Louisiana
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Creoles of South Louisiana written by Elista Istre and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 2018 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... examines past and present Creole culture through its history, food ways, oral traditions, music, and continued efforts to preserve Creole traditions"--

Creoles, Revisited

Author : Nicholas G. Faraclas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000386333
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Creoles, Revisited written by Nicholas G. Faraclas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-16 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book contributes to a paradigm shift in the study of creole languages, forging new empirical frameworks for understanding language and culture in sociohistorical contact. The authors bring together archival sources to challenge dominant linguistic theory and practice and engage issues of power, positioning marginalized indigenous peoples as the center of, and vital agents in, these languages’ formation and development. Students in language contact, pidgins and creoles, Caribbean studies, and postcolonial studies courses—and scholars across many disciplines—will benefit from this book and be convinced of the importance of understanding creoles and creolization.

Creole Economics

Author : Katherine E. Browne
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292705814
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Creole Economics written by Katherine E. Browne and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the trickster Rabbit, slave descendants, off-the-books economies, and French citizens have to do with each other? Plenty, says Katherine Browne in her anthropological investigation of the informal economy in the Caribbean island of Martinique. She begins with a question: Why, after more than three hundred years as colonial subjects of France, did the residents of Martinique opt in 1946 to integrate fully with France, the very nation that had enslaved their ancestors? The author suggests that the choice to decline sovereignty reflects the same clear-headed opportunism that defines successful, crafty, and illicit entrepreneurs who work off the books in Martinique today. Browne draws on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork and interview data from all socioeconomic sectors to question the common understanding of informal economies as culture-free, survival strategies of the poor. Anchoring her own insights to longer historical and literary views, the author shows how adaptations of cunning have been reinforced since the days of plantation slavery. These adaptations occur, not in spite of French economic and political control, but rather because of it. Powered by the "essential tensions" of maintaining French and Creole identities, the practice of creole economics provides both assertion of and refuge from the difficulties of being dark-skinned and French. This powerful ethnographic study shows how local economic meanings and plural identities help explain work off the books. Like creole language and music, creole economics expresses an irreducibly complex blend of historical, contemporary, and cultural influences.

Creole Indigeneity

Author : Shona N. Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816681952
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Creole Indigeneity written by Shona N. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the colonial period in Guyana, the countryOCOs coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In "Creole Indigeneity," Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as GuyanaOCOs new natives, displacing indigenous peoples in the Caribbean through an extension of colonial attitudes and policies. Looking particularly at the nationOCOs politically fraught decades from the 1950s to the present, Jackson explores aboriginal and Creole identities in Guyanese society. Through government documents, interviews, and political speeches, she reveals how Creoles, though unable to usurp the place of aboriginals as First Peoples in the New World, nonetheless managed to introduce a new, more socially viable definition of belonging, through labor. The very reason for bringing enslaved and indentured workers into Caribbean labor became the organizing principle for CreolesOCO new identities. Creoles linked true belonging, and so political and material right, to having performed modern labor on the land; labor thus became the basis for their subaltern, settler modes of indigeneityOCoa contradiction for belonging under postcoloniality that Jackson terms OC Creole indigeneity.OCO In doing so, her work establishes a new and productive way of understanding the relationship between national power and identity in colonial, postcolonial, and anticolonial contexts.

French-creoles

Author : Sr. Gilbert Martin
Publisher : E-Booktime Llc
ISBN 13 : 9781598241785
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book French-creoles written by Sr. Gilbert Martin and published by E-Booktime Llc. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French-Creoles: A Shattered Nation traces the origin, evolution and development of Louisiana Creole culture from the great Mali Empire of ancient Ghana to its current existence in New Orleans today. It details the sequence of connections between Africa, Europe, the French West Indies, and America. America's past and present confrontations with French Creoles in Haiti and in Louisiana are described in detail.

A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles

Author : Anand Syea
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000996824
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles written by Anand Syea and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles provides a detailed, comprehensive description of the morphology, grammar, and syntax of a selected number of English creoles, including those spoken on both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific. This book: • Focuses on a number of traditional grammatical categories to provide a comprehensive description and discussion of these languages; • Identifies not only how creoles differ from their lexifier, but also how they differ from one another; • Provides effective comparative descriptions to enable an insightful understanding of language evolution. This book will be ideal supplementary reading for students and researchers of linguistics, and will particularly appeal to those with an interest in descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, World Englishes, contact and creole linguistics, and language policy and planning.

The Missing Spanish Creoles

Author : John McWhorter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520219996
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Missing Spanish Creoles written by John McWhorter and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-07-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A controversial new analysis of the development of New World creole languages among slaves. Mc Whorter makes a vast amount of new data available in his book, and posits that New World creole languages developed in West Africa, not on the plantations in the New World.