An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and the OAPEN library. Creolizing Europe
critically interrogates creolization as the decolonial, rhizomatic
thinking necessary for understanding the cultural and social
transformations set in motion through trans/national dislocations.
Exploring the usefulness, transferability, and limitations of
creolization for thinking post/coloniality, raciality and othering
not only as historical legacies but as immanent to and constitutive
of European societies, this volume develops an interdisciplinary
dialogue between the social sciences and the humanities. It
juxtaposes US-UK debates on 'hybridity', 'mixed-race' and the
'Black Atlantic' with Caribbean and Latin American theorizations of
cultural mixing in order to engage with Europe as a permanent scene
of Edouard Glissant's creolization. Further, through a comparative
methodological angle, the focus on Europe is broadened in order to
understand the role of Europe's colonial past in the shaping of its
post/migrant and diasporic present. 'Europe' thus becomes an
expanded and contested term, unthinkable without reference to its
historical legacies and possible futures. While not all the
contributions in this volume explicitly address Edouard Glissant's
approach to creolization, they all engage with aspects of his
thinking. All of the chapters explore the usefulness,
transferability, and limitations of creolization to the European
context. As such, this edited collection offers a significant
contribution and intervention in the fields of European Studies,
Postcolonial Studies, and Cultural Studies on two levels. First, by
emphasizing that race and "cultural mixing" are central to any
thinking about and theorization on/of Europe, and second, by
applying Glissant's perspective to a variety of empirical work on
diasporic spaces, conviviality, citizenship, aesthetics, race,
racism, sexuality, gender, cultural representation and memory.
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