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Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation

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Description for Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation Paperback. 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. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 328 pages, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1KJ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
A John Hope Franklin Center Book
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822344414
SKU
V9780822344414
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About Patricia Marie Northover
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation
“This is a demanding and provocative text. . . . Crichlow makes a number of insightful interventions, usually by way of pinpointing a problem in how creolization has been used and then bringing new analogies into play.” - Huon Wardle, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute “This provocative book will surely attract attention with its signal contribution to the rich ... Read more

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