Northover / Crichlow Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination

Notes on Fleeing the Plantation
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9245-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 322 Seiten

Reihe: A John Hope Franklin Center Book

An interdisciplinary argument that the concept of cultural creolization must be expanded to encompass cultural productions by vulnerable populations living in situations of modern power inequalities anywhere in the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Northover, Patricia Marie

Crichlow, Michaeline

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Prologue. Globalization and Creole Identities: The Shaping of Power in Post-Plantation Spaces 1

1. Locating the Global in Creolization: Ships Sailing Through Modern Space 15

2. Creole Time on the Move 41

3. Decentering the "Dialectics of Resistance" in the Context of a Globalizing Modern: Afro-Creoles under Colonial Rule 73

4. Power and Its Subjects in Postcolonial Performance 107

5. "Gens Anglaises": Diasporic Movements Remixing the World with Post-Creole Imaginations 135

6. An eBay Imaginary in an Unequal World: Creolization on the Move 171

Epilogue. Rethinking Creolization through Multiple Présences: Masks, Masquerades, and the Making of Modern Subjects 201

Notes 221

Index 281

Über Autor(innen)

Michaeline A. Crichlow, an historical sociologist, is Associate Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Peasants and the State in Development and a co-editor of Informalization: Process and Structure. Patricia Northover is a Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.