American Creoles
The Francophone Caribbean and the American South
Author(s)
Munro, Martin
Britton, Celia
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
100307Language
EnglishAbstract
The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration of the plantation, in terms of its physical layout and the social relations it created, was largely the same in the Caribbean and the American South. Essays written by leading authorities in the field examine the cultural, social, and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South, including Louisiana, which among the Southern states has had a quite particular attachment to France and the Francophone world. The essays focus on issues of history, language, politics and culture in various forms, notably literature, music and theatre.
Keywords
Languages; Francophone; Caribbean; Creole language; Jazz; Louisiana; Louisiana Creole people; Martinique; New Orleans; Saint-Domingue; William FaulknerDOI
10.2307/j.ctt5vjd80ISBN
9781781386095OCN
801365215Publisher
Liverpool University PressPublisher website
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/Publication date and place
Liverpool, 2012-05-25Series
Francophone Postcolonial Studies,Classification
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000