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(p.244) Index
(p.244) Index
Note: The letter ‘f’ indicates a figure and ‘n’ a footnote.
Action française movement 135
Adderley, Cannonball 156
African Diaspora 88
Anglo-Americans 60
anti-societies 113
Appiah, Kwame Anthony 80
Aribot, Médard see Médard Aribot
Association for the Study of African and Caribbean Literature in French 1
Atlantic triangle 2
Backès, Jean-Louis 151
Barbados 31
beauty 86
Bergerot, Franck 159
Berlusconi, Silvio 87
Bernasconi, Robert 131–2
black code see Code noir
Black Music Research Journal 165
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Black Power 114
Bloch, Ernst: Principle of Hope 206
Boulet-Gercourt, Philippe 79
Bourel, Sophie 156
Bronner, Simon 26
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de: Discours sur le style 148
Cajun/Creole List 74
Camal, Jerome 11
Canboulay 126
Caribbean Creole dialect 32–3
Caribbean Sea 103–4
Carpentier, Alejo 191
Charles X, King of France 7
Charpentes (journal) 137
Chateaubriand, François-René Le Génie du christianisme 49–50
class: ‘three-class system’ 71
coartación 59
Code noir 79
colonialism 141–2
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Confiant, Raphaël
‘Lafcadio Hearn: The Magnificent Traveler’ 20–1
on Obama, Barack 87
‘Pitié pour Michael Jackson’ 86
cosmopolitanism 166
Creole continuum 21
‘Creoleness’ see créolité
créolité
definition 171
Kiavué, Klod 172
Murray, David 172
Price, Richard: The Convict and the Colonel 100
creolization
culinary 85–6
Faulkner, William and 185–6
and filiation 223
Glissant, Édouard and 185–6
Guadeloupe 11
Hearn, Lafcadio on 21–2
Martin, Denis-Constant on 168
Martinique 77–8
and race 186
and Relation 91
roots of 165
Crowley, Patrick 185
Cuba 61
Dahomay, Christian 169
dances: slaves 126
Davis, Miles
Birth of the Cool
‘Budo’ 159
Bitches Brew 153
‘Blue in Green’ 159
‘Footprints’ 162
and Glissant, Édouard compared 10–11
influence of 162
‘It's About That Time’ 160
and language 147
‘Masqualero’ 159
Miles Smiles 159
on music 156
Nefertiti 159
Spanish Key 159
De Marigny de Mandeville family 37
Debaene, Vincent 96
Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen (1789) 81
Delaney, Jim 28
Denis, Jacques 171
Depestre, René 119
Deslondes, Charles 51
DeVeaux, Scott 141
Diawara, Manthia 82
Doré, Gustave 31
Durant, Amelie 72–3
Éloge de la créolité (In Praise of Creoleness) 4
epidermalization 91
Esprit (journal) 137
ethnographers 26
Faulkner, William
African American students' response to 189
and Condé, Maryse compared 223–8
and creolization 185–6
use of epic form 192–3
and Glissant, Édouard compared 219
guilt 224–5
and history 200
identity 200
influence 191–2
and literary criticism 198
and miscegenation 217
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and otherness 190
use of racial descriptors 79
and Relation 210
style 207
tragedy in 192
the unknown in 209
Foix, Alain 91
Fortier, Alcée 41
France
abolition of slavery 51
Atlantic triangle 2
black community 81
citizenship 81
colonies, former 4
Creoles' connection to 73
discrimination 81–2
extreme right 135
métissage 80
Peninsular War (1808)61
race 81–2
‘Francophone’: definition 1–2
Francophone Caribbean Studies 3
Francophone Postcolonial Studies 1–3
French language
Césaire, Aimé 4
Frobenius, Leo 132–3
genealogy
Louisiana 56, 57
Caribbean and Creole 64–5
Creole and African American 73–4
Creole v. African American 70–3
Creole v. Américain 65–8
Creole v. Black/White racial system 68–70
methodology 63–4
slaves 219–20
genre 201
Gilroy, Paul 173
Glissant, Édouard 3
on anthropology 105
‘La Barque ouverte’ 162
Un Champ d'Iles 157–8
and Davis, Miles compared 10–11
‘L'espace d'une journée’ 152
and Faulkner, William compared 219
genres 201
Grands chaos 156–7
and Guadeloupe 177
and imagination 193–4
influence 203–4
and jazz 166–7
on literature 209–10
Mahagony 208
Malemort 207
Martinican residence 82
Mémoires des esclavages 221
and music 147–8
and negation 205–6
Une nouvelle région du monde 203
novels 151
and otherness 189
‘Pour Mycea’ 158
‘Promenoir de la mort seule’ 158
Quand les murs tombent 177
and realism 13
Sartorius 198
Soleil de la conscience 204
spiral form 160–1
La Terre inquiète 154
on Utopia 206–7
on writers' task 190
Goldhammer, Arthur 79
Gourgouris, Stathis: Does Literature Think? 195
‘gwotet’ music 174
Haiti
American occupation 119
cultural dualism 119
modernity 118
music 121
poetry 119–20
revolution 3
Hallward, Peter 143
Hamon, Philippe 107
Hanger, Kimberly S. 52
Harlem Renaissance 168
Harrap's Dictionary: definition of métis 78
Harris, Wilson 191
Hawaii 84
Hearn, Lafcadio
‘American Period’ 22–3
anthropological/ethnological paradigm 26
‘At the Gate of the Tropics’ 33
on Barbados 31
‘Black Varieties’ 30
‘Les Chiffonniers’ 31
Creole folktales 25
‘Los criollos’ 21
Lafcadio Hearn's America: Ethnographic Sketches and Editorials 26
literary trajectory in America 23–5
métissage, aesthetics of 29–32
and oral culture 28
and otherness 27
proto-ethnographic work 24
song transcriptions 28
‘A Winter Journey to Japan’ 25
Hearn, Richard 22
Hot Club de France 135
Hughes, Langston 160
hybridity 107
identities
‘American’ 57
Condé, Maryse 216
Fanon, Frantz 129–30
Glissant, Édouard 216
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Lussan, Auguste 49
idiom 150–1
In Praise of Creoleness 4
L'Insurgé (French newspaper) 135
Jackson, Michael 86
Jean, Alain 173
Jefferson, Thomas 50
jeunes maurrassiens 135
Johnson, Jerah 60
Kemedjio, Cilas 193
Konket, Guy 169
LA Creole 63
Ladd, Barbara 200
Ladrezeau, François 175
Lalande, André 153
land: settlers' appropriation of 217
language
Barbados 31
legitimacy 201
Locke, Alain 150
Loi de laïité (1905) 81
Louisiana 3
coartación 59
attachment to France 3
genealogical research
Caribbean and Creole 64–5
Creole and African American 73–4
Creole v. African American 70–3
Creole v. Américain 65–8
Creole v. Black/White racial system 68–70
methodology 63–4
Lussan, Auguste: La Famille créole 48–52
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revolution (1768) 41
slave rebellion (1795) 50–1
Louisiana Purchase (1803) 60
Lubat, Bernard 148
Lussan, Auguste
identity 41
Les Martyrs de la Louisiane 41
mirroring 48
lyric genre 201
Macherey, Pierre: Pour une théorie de la production littéraire 218–19
Mangeon, Anthony 150
Marshall, Bill 3
Martinique
autonomy 84
Creole aesthetic 35
Creole dialect 32–3
Créolité 4–5
attachment to France 125
history 108
memory: Price, Richard: The Convict and the Colonel 108
Métraux, Alfred 117
Miller, Christopher L.: The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade 2–3
Mintz, Sidney: Caribbean Contours 5
Miró, Governor 52
miscegenation
aesthetics of 29
Condé, Maryse and 224
and filiation 216
illegality of 88
and métissage contrasted 79
mixed marriages 66
modernism
and knowledge 208
Molinié, George 156
Le Monde (French newspaper) 81
Montray Kreyol (website) 87
Mounier, Emmanuel 137
mulâtres (‘mulattos’) 79
music 167
Creole 119
Davis, Miles on 156
funk 115
Glissant, Édouard and 147–8
‘gwotet’ 174
improvisation 162
and literature 151
nègre 134
quadrille 169
rap 156
and style 148
Nattiez, Jean-Jacques 175
Nau, Émile 118
Négoce (accordionist) 176
Negrit, Frederic 169
Nesbitt, Nick 118
New Orleans
cultural intolerance 60
French Theater 42
genealogical research see under Louisiana
history 57
language 32–3
municipalities 67
New York Times 81
Newton, Lewis William 41
Le Nouvel Observateur (French newspaper) 79
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‘Obama martiniquais’ (video) 84–6
‘One-Drop Rule’ 79
O'Reilly, Alejandro 59
Parker, Charlie 135
Pavel, Thomas 107
Peninsular War (1808) 61
Pétion, Alexandre 121
Petit Robert (dictionary): definition of ‘créole’ 173
Pitot House, Bayou St John 66
‘postcolonial’: definition 1
Pratt, Mary Louise 25–6
Price, Richard
The Convict and the Colonel 8–9
créolité 100
distancing 101
hybridity 107–8
literary technique 107
memory 108
methodology 105
mirroring 97
nostalgia 100
créolistes' criticism of 98
First Time: The Historical Vision of an Afro-American People 96
mirroring 97
reputation 99
‘Shadowboxing in the Mangrove’ 99
Price-Mars, Jean 119
quadrille (musical genre) 169
racial oppression 143–4
racial prejudice 73
racial segregation 71
rap music 156
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Relation
ethnography of 105
rhythm 134
aesthetic 156
Brown, James 114–15
and change 127
and creolization 122–7
Haiti 117–22
Lalande, André on 153
music and poetry 151
and race 125
Sauvenet, Pierre on 153
Rollins, Sonny 154
Romantics, French 51
Rosen, Charles 148
Roumain, Jacques: Gouverneurs de la rosée 120–2
Rousselin, Pierre 77
Saint-Domingue (Haiti)
Lussan, Auguste: La Famille créole 43–5
Saint-Domingue Special Interest Group 63
St Pierre (Martinique) 34–5
Santa Cruz see Frederiksted
Sauvenet, Pierre 153
Senghor, Léopold Sédar
politics of 137
slavery
abolition of 51
‘abyss’ of 13
Condé, Maryse: Traversée de la mangrove 227–8
and creolization 14
and cultural erasure 172
Faulkner, William and 188
Obama family's inheritence of 89–90
as ‘original sin’ 217
and plaçage 58
slaves
and Americanization process 60–1
and coartación 58
dances 126
genealogies 219–20
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and identity 125–6
and métissage 79
New Orleans 60
whites' parody of 126
songs: Lafcadio Hearn's transcriptions 28
Souriau, Etienne 148
Spanish language 21–2
Strobel, Michèle-Baj: Les Gens de l'or 106
Sue, Eugène 31
swaré léwòz (outdoor celebrations) 169
theatres 41
three-class system 71
Tournès, Ludovic 135
Transnational French Studies: Postcolonialism and Littérature-Monde 2
travel books 25–6
Treaty of Paris (1763) 58
Trethewey, Natasha 88
Trouillot, Lyonel 122
truth, repression of see ‘différé’
Turner, Nat 51
Ulloa y de la Torre Guiral, Antonio de 59
Utopia 206–7
van Allen Caulfield, Ruby 41–2
Varèse, Edgar 159
Vesey, Denmark 51
Vignes, Luc Michaux 175
Wiedorn, Michael 208
Zé, Tom 171
Zobel, Joseph: La Rue cases-nègres 122–5
zouk music 170
Zuma, Jacob 86