Métissage

In this dissertation, I investigate the ways in which the phenomenon of racial and cultural hybridity inform and alter the social, political and cultural fabric of three creole cities of significant colonial influence, namely Saint-Louis of Senegal, Saint-Pierre of Martinique an…

By using popular and formal, elevated styles to refer to both popular culture and high culture, and by giving her characters a culturally mixed background as well as tastes, Sebbar questions the traditional boundaries of cultural separation. She asks for a more broadly humanisti…

My dissertation compares and contrasts French Caribbean and Indian Ocean Literatures around the concepts of Créolité, Créolisation , and Coolitude . I show that the concept of insular identity in the Mascarene Islands enriches the concept of Créolité developed by Patrick Chamois…