La Querelle de la créolisation: Creolization vs. créolité in Glissant, Condé and the Creolists

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Titre: La Querelle de la créolisation: Creolization vs. créolité in Glissant, Condé and the Creolists; Nottingham French Studies
Titre du volume: 1
Volume: 56
Date: 2017/04
Issn: 00294586
Résumé: In this article, I examine several contemporary Franco-Caribbean authors as heirs to a movement conceiving of Antillean identity from an indigenous perspective, begun in earnest by Aimé Césaire but carried forward largely by Édouard Glissant. Whereas Guadeloupean Maryse Condé leans heavily towards a broad conception of 'Créole', following the openness of Glissant's notion of creolization, Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphaël Confiant (the Creolists) insist on creoleness, or créolité. The subtle difference in the suffix of each of these terms indicates a much larger conceptual difference between process and product, continuing evolution and fixed definition. In order to explore the créolité movement from a heterogeneous perspective, I include in my observations the Creolists, who seem at times militant in their views, Condé, who represents a more global mind-set, and an analysis of gender issues.
Creator: Holly Collins
Subject: CESAIRE, Aime, 1913-2008; CREOLE literature; Caribbean; GLISSANT, Edouard, 1928-2011; GLOBALIZATION; Jean Bernabé; Maryse Condé; Patrick Chamoiseau; Raphaël Confiant; SUFFIXES & prefixes (Grammar); WRITING; creole; creolization; diaspora; francophone; identity; immigration; Édouard Glissant
pages: 67-81
short title: Nottingham French Studies; La Querelle de la créolisation
doi: 10.3366/nfs.2017.0168