"Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination" is a major
intervention into discussions of Caribbean practices gathered under
the rubric of "creolization." Examining sociocultural, political,
and economic transformations in the Caribbean, Michaeline A.
Crichlow argues that creolization--culture-creating processes
usually associated with plantation societies and with subordinate
populations remaking the cultural forms of dominant groups--must be
liberated from and expanded beyond plantations, and even beyond the
black Atlantic, to include productions of "culture" wherever
vulnerable populations live in situations of modern power
inequalities, from regimes of colonialism to those of
neoliberalism. Crichlow theorizes a concept of creolization that
speaks to how individuals from historically marginalized groups
refashion self, time, and place in multiple ways, from creating art
to traveling in search of homes. Grounding her theory in the
material realities of Caribbean peoples in the plantation era and
the present, Crichlow contends that creolization and Creole
subjectivity are constantly in flux, morphing in response to the
changing conditions of modernity and creatively expressing a
politics of place.
Engaging with the thought of Michel Foucault, Michel
Rolph-Trouillot, Achille Mbembe, Henri Lefebvre, Margaret Archer,
Saskia Sassen, Pierre Bourdieu, and others, Crichlow argues for
understanding creolization as a continual creative remaking of past
and present moments to shape the future. She draws on sociology,
philosophy, postcolonial studies, and cultural studies to
illustrate how national histories are lived personally and how
transnational experiences reshape individual lives and collective
spaces. Critically extending Bourdieu's idea of habitus, she
describes how contemporary Caribbean subjects remake themselves in
and beyond the Caribbean region, challenging, appropriating, and
subverting older, localized forms of creolization. In this book,
Crichlow offers a nuanced understanding of how Creole citizens of
the Caribbean have negotiated modern economies of power.
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