American Creoles—The Francophone Caribbean and the American South

In American Creoles, leading authorities examine the cultural, social, and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South. The essays focus on issues of history, language, politics, and culture in various forms and consider figures as diverse as Barack Obama, Frantz Fanon, Miles Davis, James Brown, Edouard Glissant, William Faulkner, and Lafcadio Hearn. Exploring the ideas of Creole culture and creolization—terms rooted in the history of contact between European and African people and cultures in the Americas—the essays provide productive ways to conceive of the larger Caribbean as a single cultural and historical entity.

Martin Munro is professor of French and Francophone studies at Florida State University and the author of Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas. Celia Britton is professor of French and Francophone studies at University College London and the author of The Sense of Community in French Caribbean Fiction.