Coolitude – An Early Exposition

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  Coolitude AN EARLY EXPOSITION Coolitude is both an intellectual interpretation, and a poetic and artistic immersion into the world of the vanished coolie. The concept of coolitude encompasses the experiences of the first generation workers together with those of their descendants spread across the Caribbean, Pacific and Indian Ocean islands today. Indeed the symbolic […]... Read More
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COOLIE – Cultural Identity

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COOLITUDE – Transversal Identity according to Raphael Confiant   Raphael Confiant, the celebrated author and ‘militant créole’ from Martinique discusses coolitude in an article published in French recently. Below is an edited résumé in English of his musings on the subject: Confiant writes, there are two ways of conceptualizing cultural identity: one is the conservative, […]... Read More
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COOLITUDE

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Depuis la conscientisation et la revalorisation de l’identité de l’homme noir par les Africains de la diaspora, débutant en Amérique et ensuite, dans les sociétés coloniales francophones, nous avons été témoins de plusieurs mouvements identitaires, littéraires et parfois à connotations ethniques. La Négritude, la Créolité, l’Antillanité et l’Indienoceanisme réclamaient tous une place dans un monde […]... Read More