Creolization as Cultural Creativity

Contents

Contents ix Preface 3 Introduction: Creolization as Cultural Creativity —robert baron and ana c. cara 20 Metaphors of Incommensurability —john f. szwed 32 Monde Créole: The Cultural World of French Louisiana Creoles and the Creolization of World Cultures —nick spitzer 68 Creolization, Nam, Absent Loved Ones, Watchers, and Serious Play with “Toys” —rey undaker 109 Ritual Piracy: Or Creolization with an Attitude —raquel romber 137 Africa’s Creole Drum: The Gumbe as Vector and Signifier of Trans-African Creolization —kenneth bilby 178 Techniques of Creolization —lee harin 198 Creole Talk: The Poetics and Politics of Argentine Verbal Art —ana c. cara viii Contents 228 Villes, Poèmes: The Postwar Routes of Caribbean Creolization —j. michael dash 243 Amalgams and Mosaics, Syncretisms and Reinterpretations: Reading Herskovits and Contemporary Creolists for Metaphors of Creolization —robert baron 285 About Face: Rethinking Creolization —roer d. abrahams 307 References 339 List of Contributors 343 Index ...