Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination

Notes on Fleeing the Plantation

Autor: Northover, Patricia Marie; Crichlow, Michaeline
Editor: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822344278
eISBN Pdf: 9780822392453
Lugar de publicación: Durham , Estados Unidos
Año de publicación digital: 2009
Mes: Julio
Páginas: 328
DDC: 305.5/633089960729
Idioma: Ingles

Descripción

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.

CONTENTS
Preface
Prologue - Globalization and Creole Identities
One - Locating the Global in Creolization
Two - Creole Time on the Move
Three - Decentering the ‘‘Dialectics of Resistance’’ in the Context of a Globalizing Modern
Four - Power and Its Subjects in Postcolonial Performance
Five - ‘‘Gens Anglaises’’
Six - An eBay Imaginary in an Unequal World
Epilogue - Rethinking Creolization through Multiple Présences
Notes
Index