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Identities in Crisis: Alice Dunbar-Nelson's New Orleans Fiction
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In this paper, Bongie uses Edouard Glissant's understanding of creoliza-tion as a process of cross-cultural exchange to describe the limita-tions and possibilities of postcolonial theory.Abstract:
In recent years, critics have celebrated Caribbean theories of creolization for their creative and protean approaches to identity. E.K. Brathwaite’s version of creolization and Wilson Harris’s “creative syncretism” (his term for cross-cultural exchanges) have been hailed as powerful critical tools in dismantling destructive binaries and harmful racial hierarchies within Caribbean literature.1 Similarly, Chris Bongie deploys Edouard Glissant’s understanding of creolization as a process of cross-cultural exchange to describe the limitations and possibilities of postcolonial theory. Bongie’s book, Islands and Exiles, is intended, he states, “quite simply to help further Glissant’s argument that ‘ours is a creolizing world’” (10). Indeed, H. Adlai Murdoch affirms the potential of Glissant’s theory in articulating a relational identity vitally important to the Caribbean region (157–61). Even Peter Childs and Patrick Williams’s recent Introduction to Post-Colonial Theory celebrates Caribbean creolization’...read more
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"You . . . Could Never Be Mistaken": Reading Alice Dunbar-Nelson's Rhetorical Diversions in The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
TL;DR: The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories (1899) as mentioned in this paper is a collection of short stories about women's romantic quest to win the heart of Theophile, who has temporarily transferred his affections to Claralie.
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Recovering Alice Dunbar-Nelson for the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction
Carnival, Convents, and the Cult of St. Rocque: Cultural Subterfuge in the Work of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
TL;DR: In the work of Alice Dunbar-Nelson the city and culture of 19 century New Orleans figures prominently, and is a major character affecting the lives of her protagonists as discussed by the authors.
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