Creole nationalism positions hybrid identity at the center of a new European globalization

Evidence

This hybridized future is at the forefront of neoglobalization. Such a conceptualization is essential to the European aspirations of Creole nationalism. It substantiates the selflocation of the Creole at the center of a new globalization of the Europeanized North Atlantic. Thus, Patrick Chamoiseau, one of the movement’s leading ideologues, describes creolization as a “great poetics of relation, which allows people to express their newfound diversity, to live it fluidly. In creolization, there never comes a time of general synthesis, with everyone beatifically at one with one another” (see Taylor, 1989:136). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3237

Categorization

• DEFINE: Chamoiseau’s definition of creolization as a ‘poetics of relation’ with no final synthesis captures the movement’s rejection of unitary identity.
• XREF: connects to: the MOC “The Tongue of Power: When Language Becomes the Battlefield of Empire”