Encountering Difference

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgments; A Note on Usage; Framing the Question: A Preamble; 1 Shaping the Tools: Three Concepts; Social identity formation; Diaspora; Creolization; Conclusion; Notes; 2 Exploring Difference: Early Interactions; Early explanations of difference; Babylon as metaphor; Kant: the flawed cosmopolitan; Civilization or Kultur; Herder's intervention; Dancing and cannibal talk; Talking to each other: the beginnings of convergence; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Locating Identity Formation: Contact Zones; Islands and plantations as contact zones; Islanded identities. Cover Title Page Copyright Acknowledgments A Note on Usage Framing the Question: A Preamble 1 Shaping the Tools: Three Concepts Social identity formation Diaspora Creolization Conclusion Notes 2 Exploring Difference: Early Interactions Early explanations of difference Babylon as metaphor Kant: the flawed cosmopolitan Civilization or Kultur Herder's intervention Dancing and cannibal talk Talking to each other: the beginnings of convergence Conclusion Notes 3 Locating Identity Formation: Contact Zones Islands and plantations as contact zones Islanded identities. Port cities as contact zonesSuper-diverse cities Conclusion Notes 4 Expressing Merged Identities: Music Encounters in Cape Verde Diasporic and creolized identities in Louisiana Authenticity and longing: the music of Cape Verde Louisiana: the wellspring of popular music Conclusion Notes 5 Celebrating and Resisting: Carnival Situating carnival and the 'carnivalesque' Mardi Gras in Louisiana Carnival in Cape Verde Carnival in London Conclusion Notes 6 Constructing Heritage Mauritius: the era of creolization The revival of diasporic heritages in Mauritius. Creolization in northwestern LouisianaDecreolization and the recovery of a Creole heritage culture Reaffirming creolization: Louisiana and Mauritius Conclusion Notes 7 Marking Identities: The Cultural Politics of Multiple Loyalties French and Martinican: in harmony or at odds? Marking difference from the metropole Environmental markers: what lies beneath? Social markers: Martinican or metropolitain? Cultural or creole markers Conclusion Notes 8 Encountering Difference: A Conclusion Concepts Encounters Spaces Music and carnival Other cultural practices Heritage. Markers of identityConflict, cohabitation or creolization Imagining the future Notes Bibliography Index End User License Agreement.