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Toward a global theory of creolization as an emergent process by opposition to multiculturalism as a configuration of identities

Pour une théorie globale de la créolisation comme processus émergent par opposition au multiculturalisme comme configuration d'identités

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The purpose is to build a theory of creolization and related notions as emergent process by opposition to multiculturalism as the interaction of distinctive cultures. Considerations will be based on the actual occurrences of the terms recorded in the extensive lexicographical surveys conducted on critical documents in view of the International Dictionary of Literary Terms (www.ditl.info). The semantical analysis of the contexts connected with the terms reveals a divide between, on one side, linguistic and cultural phenomena related to the idea of creolization as a «combustion» (avoiding however the significative but somewhat controversial idea of «fusion»), and to the other side a conception of «multiculturalism» as a mixture or an interaction of distinctive elements. The difference of nature between these two principles can be compared in physics and chemistry with, on one side, water which gets properties of its own that are not those of its components, oxygen and hydrogen, and brime, on the other side, which retains the qualities of water and salt. This is in fact an experimental verification of the «contradistinction» posited in the seminar proposal. Creolization produces new linguistic and cultural entities which are not determined by historical circumstances ; they cannot be reduced to the interaction of their components. Their evolution cannot be predicted from past experiences nor from present conditions. As the Anthropophagist Movement in Brazil, creolization digests European elements into an original cultural body emancipated from colonial conditions. Neither European nor African (in the case of the Caribbean), they develop a dynamics of their own finding their place into the global landscape, and transforming it. Let us call this unique integration of two (or more) heterogeneous constituents, an «emergent third» («Tiers émergent»), neither determined by one source nor by the other, but acting beyond both of them in the outcome.
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Jean-Marie Grassin. Toward a global theory of creolization as an emergent process by opposition to multiculturalism as a configuration of identities. David Gallagher. in David Gallagher (ed.), Creoles, Diasporas and cosmopolitanisms. The Creolization of nations, cultural migrations, global languages and literatures, Academica Press, pp.97-112, 2012, Creoles, Diasporas and cosmopolitanisms. The Creolization of nations, cultural migrations, global languages and literatures, 978-1-936320-23-3. ⟨hal-02970521⟩
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