Cooking Creoleness: Lafcadio Hearn in New Orleans and Martinique

Martinican creolist Raphaël Confiant claims in an unabashed praise of Lafcadio Hearn that the nineteenth century writer “invented what today we might call ‘multiple identity’ or ‘creoleness’ [créolité].” Critic Chris Bongie notes that the word “creolization” appeared for the first time in the Englis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Valérie Loichot
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2012-08-01
Series:Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
Online Access:http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/537