Global in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, "Creolization
as Cultural Creativity" explores the expressive forms and
performances that come into being when cultures encounter one
another. Creolization is presented as a powerful marker of identity
in the postcolonial Creole societies of Latin America, the
Caribbean, and the southwest Indian Ocean region, as well as a
universal process that can occur anywhere cultures come into
contact.
An extraordinary number of cultures from Haiti, Martinique,
Guadeloupe, the southern United States, Trinidad and Tobago,
Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Reunion, Puerto Rico, Argentina,
Suriname, Jamaica, and Sierra Leone are discussed in these
essays.
Essayists address theoretical dimensions of creolization and
present in-depth field studies. Topics include adaptations of the
Gombe drum over the course of its migration from Jamaica to West
Africa; uses of "ritual piracy" involved in the appropriation of
Catholic symbols by Puerto Rican "brujos"; the subversion of
official culture and authority through playful and combative use of
"creole talk" in Argentine literature and verbal arts; the
mislabeling and trivialization ("toy blindness") of objects
appropriated by African Americans in the American South; the
strategic use of creole techniques among storytellers within the
islands of the Indian Ocean; and the creolized character of New
Orleans and its music. In the introductory essay the editors
address both local and universal dimensions of creolization and
argue for the centrality of its expressive manifestations for
creolization scholarship.
"Creolization as Cultural Creativity" draws from the disciplines
of folklore, anthropology, ethnomusicology, literary studies,
history, and material culture studies. Contributors include Roger
D. Abrahams, Robert Baron, Kenneth Bilby, Ana C. Cara, J. Michael
Dash, Grey Gundaker, Lee Haring, Raquel Romberg, Nick Spitzer, and
John F. Szwed."
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