Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau Through Fanon

by Jane Anna Gordon

Might creolization offer political theory an approach that would better reflect the heterogeneity of political life? After all, it describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the plantation societies of the Caribbean but did so through their capacity to exemplify living culture, thought, and political practice. Similar processes continue today, when people who once were strangers find themselves unequal co-occupants of new political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823254828
• ISBN13: 9780823254828
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"