Nicole Simek

Bio: Nicole Simek is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Creole language & Globalization. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 4 publications receiving 17 citations.

Hungry Ironies in the French Antilles

Abstract: Any human life that is even the least bit balanced is structured around, on the one hand, the immediate needs of drinking-surviving-eating (to put it plainly, the prosaic); and, on the other, the aspiration to self-fulfillment, where nourishment takes the form of dignity, honor, music, songs, dances, reading, philosophy, spirituality, love, and free time for fulfilling the deepest longings (to put it plainly, the poetic).

Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive:

Abstract: If you really want to be smarter, reading can be one of the lots ways to evoke and realize. Many people who like reading will have more knowledge and experiences. Reading can be a way to gain information from economics, politics, science, fiction, literature, religion, and many others. As one of the part of book categories, blog theory feedback and capture in the circuits of drive always becomes the most wanted book. Many people are absolutely searching for this book. It means that many love to read this kind of book.

The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

Abstract: The Political Unconscious of ArchitectureThe Political BrainValences of the DialecticNarrating DeathJameson, Althusser, MarxThe Capitalist UnconsciousThe Ancients and the PostmodernsThe Jamesonian UnconsciousMarxism and FormThe Political MindPostmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late CapitalismDemocracy and the Political UnconsciousThe Postcolonial UnconsciousCritical Theory TodayIn the Skin of a LionThe Political UnconsciousSuicidal Narrative in Modern JapanA Singular ModernityJameson on JamesonArchaeologies of the FutureAn American UtopiaTheory of LiteratureLiterary MaterialismsSkeptical EngagementsThe Benjamin FilesKilling for LifeLate MarxismThe Modernist PapersThe New Social Theory ReaderAesthetics and PoliticsThe Prison-House of LanguageA Theory of Literary ProductionIf I StayPolitical Unconscious of ArchitectureThe Third UnconsciousFables of AggressionDesire and Domestic FictionThe Geopolitical AestheticAllegory and IdeologyJameson, Althusser, Marx

Becoming American in Creole New Orleans: family, community, labor and schooling, 1896-1949

Abstract: The Louisiana Creole community in New Orleans went through profound changes in the first half of the 20th-century. This work examines Creole ethnic identity, focusing particularly on the transition from Creole to American. In "becoming American," Creoles adapted to a binary, racialized caste system prevalent in the Jim Crow American South (and transformed from a primarily Francophone/Creolophone community (where a tripartite although permissive caste system long existed) to a primarily Anglophone community (marked by stricter black-white binaries). These adaptations and transformations were facilitated through Creole participation in fraternal societies, the organized labor movement and public and parochial schools that provided English-only instruction. The "Americanization of Creole New Orleans" has been a common theme in Creole studies since the early 1990's, but no prior study has seriously examined the cultural and social transformation of Creole New Orleans by addressing the place and role of public and private institutions as instruments and facilitators of Americanization. By understanding the transformation of Creole New Orleans, this thesis demonstrates how an historically mixed-race community was ultimately divided by the segregationist culture of the early-twentieth century U.S. South. In addition to an extensive body of secondary research, this work draws upon archival research at the University of New Orleans' Special Collections, Tulane University Special Collections, the Amistad Research Center, The Archdiocese of New Orleans, and Xavier University Special Collections. This thesis makes considerable use of census data, draws upon press reports, and brings to bear a wide assortment of oral histories conducted by the author and others. Most scholars have viewed New Orleans Creoles simply as Francophone African Americans, but this view is limited. This doctoral thesis engages the Creole community in New Orleans on its own terms, and in its own idioms, to understand what "becoming American" meant for New Orleans Creoles between 1896-1949.