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CASE STUDIES: NARRATIVE METACREOLIZATION BÉNÉDICTE LEDENT ] Creolization in Robert Antoni’s Blessed is the Fruit A Linguistic Analysis ITH THE EXCEPTION OF REGGAE , creolization is no doubt one of the major Caribbean contributions to the world of univer- sal culture. Originating in the area’s complex and often painful early experience of migration and cosmopolitanism, it has recently been sum- med up as “a syncretic process of transverse dynamics that endlessly reworks and transforms the cultural patterns of varied social and historical experiences and identities.” Although cultural interbreeding, and the unique forms of civilization it has led to, have characterized the Caribbean from the fifteenth century onwards, they were not openly acknowledged before the end of the twentieth century. Indeed, in spite of earlier individual attempts to highlight the cross-cultural roots of the area, for example that of the Cubans José Martí and Nicolás Guillén, racial purity and national compartmentalization long Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dynamics of Language, Literature, and Identity, ed. Kathleen M. Balutansky & Marie–Agnès Sourieau (Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1998): 3. Mentioned in Maryse Condé, “Créolité without the Creole Language?” in Balutansky & Sourieau, ed. Caribbean Creolization, 106. © A Pepper-Pot of Cultures:
Matatu – Brill
Published: Dec 7, 2003
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