Creolization process resists both universal Being and fixed ethnic grounding

Evidence

This is where we depart from the concept of creoleness. Though this notion covers (no more and no less) that which accounts for creolizations, it goes on to propose two further extensions. The first opens onto a broader ethnocultural realm, from the Antilles to the lndian Ocean. But variations of this sort do nol seem to be determining factors, because the speed with which they change in Relation is so great. The second is an attempt ta gel at Being. But that would constitute a step backward in comparison with how creolizations can function. We propose neither humaniy 5 Being nor its models. We are not prompted solely by the defining of our identities but by their relation to everything possible as wellthe mutual mutations generated by this interplay of relations. Creolizations bring into Relation but not ta universalize; the princiPles of creoleness regress toward negritudes, ideas of Frenchness, of Latinness, aU generalizing conceptsmore or Baroque derangement and the guarantee provided by scientific rigor: just yesterday these were the counterpoises of our movement (our balan, our surge, our momentum) toward totalité-monde. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 464

Categorization

• XREF: Glissant’s rejection of any reach toward Being parallels Spivak’s own movement away from strategic essentialism — both refuse essentialist anchoring even as a tactical endpoint. — connects to: Creolization deconstructs dominant forms into vernacular local modes — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 489; Creolized language threatens colonizers by enabling resistance in their presence — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 19; Creolization dissolves the original purity of the categories being mixed — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 468

Broader Connections

• Creolization deconstructs dominant forms into vernacular local modes #expands (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 489
• Creolized language threatens colonizers by enabling resistance in their presence #exemplifies (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 19