Creolization in the Making of the Americas

• Published in: Caribbean quarterly Vol. 54; no. 1-2; pp. 81 - 89
• Main Author: Glissant, Edouard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Mona Routledge 01.03.2008; University of the West Indies, School of Continuing Studies; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: African Americans; Ambiguity; American literature; Creoles; Cultural conflict; Cultural identity; Ethnic groups; Ethnic identity; Faulkner, William (1897-1962); Language; Minority & ethnic groups; Multiculturalism & pluralism; Native Americans; Pidgins; Plantations; Politics; Self concept; Americas; United States > US; Panama; West Indies; Mexico; Martinique; Belize

By contrast, and in accordance with the same revolving movement of contacts and conflicts, the Caribbean Sea is the sea that "diffracts." Since 1492, it has been a preface to the continent (in the seventeenth century, it was sometimes known as the Sea of Peru), a place of passage, of trans...