Over the years, our interest in creolization intensified, with fragrant overtones, through many conversations with Daniel J. We were privileged to have been students of the late Dell Hymes, whose groundbreaking “ethnography of communication,” combined with his work on Creole and pidgin languages, his pioneering research and fieldwork on ethnopoetics, and his explicit recognition of the contribution of folklore to sociolinguistic research (Hymes 1971), decisively shaped our work on creolization. In the years since we first conceived this volume, creolization studies has expanded exponentially from an area of sociolinguistics that challenged received paradigms to a robust field of scholarship that profoundly influences multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. This volume includes substantially revised essays from the winter 2003 special issue of the Journal of American Folklore along with new contributions written especially for this book. They represent an extraordinary variety of scholarly perspectives and personal backgrounds, yet all of us share a view of creolization as a quintessential embodiment of cultural creativity. Along the way, we were joined by panel participants and a plenary speaker at annual meetings of the American Folklore Society, by contributors to a special issue of the Journal of American Folklore, and by the authors included in this volume. This voyage began when we were graduate students in John Szwed’s visionary seminar on creolization in folklore and literature at the University of Pennsylvania during the mid-1970s. For the editors, an Argentine criolla with Andalusian and Moravian ancestors and a New York Jew with roots in Belarus, Hungary, Lithuania, and Poland, the subject of this volume has deep personal resonance and represents an ongoing intellectual journey. michael dashĪmalgams and Mosaics, Syncretisms and Reinterpretations: Reading Herskovits and Contemporary Creolists for Metaphors of Creolization -robert baronĪbout Face: Rethinking Creolization -roger d. Villes, Poèmes: The Postwar Routes of Caribbean Creolization -j. Ritual Piracy: Or Creolization with an Attitude -raquel rombergĪfrica’s Creole Drum: The Gumbe as Vector and Signifier of Trans-African Creolization -kenneth bilbyĬreole Talk: The Poetics and Politics of Argentine Verbal Art -ana c. Monde Créole: The Cultural World of French Louisiana Creoles and the Creolization of World Cultures -nick spitzerĬreolization, Nam, Absent Loved Ones, Watchers, and Serious Play with “Toys” -grey gundaker Introduction: Creolization as Cultural Creativity -robert baron and ana c. Includes bibliographical references and index. Copyright © 2011 by University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 2011 ∞ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Creolization as cultural creativity / edited by Robert Baron and Ana C. 459 (2003): 9–18, and in his Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music and American Culture, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005: 223–233. Szwed, “Metaphors of Incommensurability” appeared in the Journal of American Folklore 116, no. Spitzer, “Monde Créole: The Cultural World of French Louisiana Creoles and the Creolization of World Cultures” in the Journal of American Folklore 116, no. A previous version of Nick Spitzer, “Monde Créole: The Cultural World of French Louisiana Creoles and the Creolization of World Cultures” appeared as Nicholas R. A previous version of Raquel Romberg, “Ritual Piracy: Or Creolization with an Attitude” appeared as “Ritual Piracy: Or Creolization with an Attitude?” in New West Indian Guide 79, no. A previous version of Lee Haring, “Techniques of Creolization” appeared in the Journal of American Folklore 116, no. Cara, “The Poetics of Creole Talk” appeared in the Journal of American Folklore 116, no.
A previous version of Robert Baron, “Amalgams and Mosaics, Syncretisms and Reinterpretations: Reading Herskovits and Contemporary Creolists for Metaphors of Creolization” appeared in the Journal of American Folklore 116, no. 459 (2003): 73–87, and as “Creolizations” in his Everyday Life: A Poetics of Vernacular Practices, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005: 217–237. Abrahams, “About Face: Rethinking Creolization” appeared as “Questions of Criolian Contagion” in the Journal of American Folklore 116, no. The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. University Press of Mississippi / Jackson Creolization as Cultural Creativity Edited by
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