Creolization deconstructs dominant forms into vernacular local modes

Evidence

It is this vernacular system of cosmopolitan exchange that lies at the heart of his concerns—and most particularly the syncretic processes through which its dominant cultural forms are deconstructed into local modes of life. To return to the concerns of “The West and the Rest”—for him, this marks the end of modernity defined exclusively in Western terms and its reemergence in new vernacular forms in different parts of the globe. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 489

Categorization

• XREF: Directly echoes Hall’s own ‘The West and the Rest’ framework on how modernity is defined against its non-Western other — a key bridge for later Islamophobia readings that critique Eurocentric definitions of modernity. — connects to: Creolization process resists both universal Being and fixed ethnic grounding — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 464; Rerouting functions as a norm of dislocated Caribbean art — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 261; Creolization dissolves the original purity of the categories being mixed — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 468 (+2 more)