Robyn Cope, assistant professor of Romance languages and literatures, presented at the Culture/Identity/Politics: In Praise of Creoleness, Twenty-Five Years On International Conference, sponsored by the Winthrop-King Institute at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, in October. The conference brought together leading scholars of Caribbean and Indian Ocean Creole cultural production to consider the relevance of Jean Bernab茅, Patrick Chamoiseau and Rapha毛l Confiant鈥檚 1989 manifesto, Eloge de la Cr茅olit茅 (In Praise of Creoleness) to our understanding of Creoleness today. Professor Cope鈥檚 presentation, 鈥淎ntillanit茅, Am茅ricanit茅, and Cr茅olit茅 in Lakshmi Persaud鈥檚 Butterfly in the Wind,鈥 examined Indo-Trinidadians鈥 unique relationship to the Caribbean, assimilation, and the notion of Creoleness through the lens of Persaud鈥檚 diasporic culinary fiction.
Robyn Cope
November 17, 2014