Beyond Francophonie: Contextualizing Éloge de la créolité

What is it about?

This essay contrasts the Martiniquan Eloge de la créolité to identitarian movements in the anglophone, hispanophone, and Suriname-based Caribbean, stressing the importance in these latter of active dialogue among artists. poets, dancers, musicians, journalists, publishers, and politicians. It argues that the authors of the Éloge, unlike their cultural forefathers Aimé Césaire and Édouard Glissant, missed an opportunity to include creative people outside of their own francophone literary universe when composing their manifesto.

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