Permeable Creole boundaries make Caribbean identity fluid and unstable

Evidence

Nonetheless, the boundaries separating the Creole and non-Creole are highly permeable. It is this permeability that has given Caribbean society its impermanence and temporality. It allows for changing notions of “West Indian” or “Caribbean” identity in response to the changing influences and the changing demands of the global environment. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3202

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Rerouting functions as a norm of dislocated Caribbean art — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 261; Creole language variation prevents identity from reifying into essence — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 349; Creole syntax allows free movement across word classes inherited from African languages — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 54