This article explores the tension between Pope Francis as a ‘trickster’ and as a much-needed reformer of the Catholic Church at large. He is an exemplar of the longue durée of an embodied ‘Atlantic Return’ from the Americas to the ‘heart’ of Catholicism (Rome and the Vatican), with its ambivalent, racialized history. Through the mobilization of material religion, sensuous mediations, and the case of the Lampedusa crosses in particular, I engage with an anthropological analysis of Francis as a Criollo and the first-ever Jesuit pope. Examining Francis’s papacy overlapping racial and ethico-political dimensions, I identify coordinates around which the rhetorical, affective, and charismatic force of Francis as a Criollo has been actualized—between, most crucially, proximity and distance, as well as pastoral versus theological impulses. This article advances an understanding of Francis that emerges from a study of the conjuncture of affective fields, political theology, racialized aesthetics, and mediatic interface.
Robert L. Paquette
Most historians, even specialists in the field of slavery, know little about the largest and bloodiest slave insurrection in United States history. The revolt broke out in a sugar-producing region in the Territory of Orleans in 1811, one year before Louisiana's statehood. A disciplined army of rebels composed of men and women, African-born slaves and creole slaves, mulattoes and blacks, skilled slaves and field hands, marched down the east bank of the Mississippi River in quickstep toward New Orleans. Stunned eyewitnesses observe slaves in military formation with drums beating and flags waving. At least some of the leaders of the revolt were uniformed, mounted on horseback, and wielded rearms. Charles, a mulatto slave driver allegedly from Saint-Domingue (Haiti), led the uprising. The 1811 insurrection raises big questions about the causes and content of slave rebellion. Why did the insurrection break out when and where it did? How were slaves of different types from different plantations mobilized to revolt? Was the Louisiana insurrection influenced by the slave revolution in Saint-Domingue? Or were the causes of the revolt local? Why did free-people of color assist whites in suppressing the movement? What were the goals of the rebels? Summary justice led to the grisly executions and mutilations of scores of slaves. Did torture and terror have the desired results for the master class?
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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The Colonial State and Carnival
The Complexity and Ambiguity of Carnival in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
Christoph Kohl
-Bissau, particularly in times of crisis. Luso-African creole communities, I will argue, were important agents in this history of colonial crisis and carnival mimesis. In the former Portuguese Guinea—today the independent state of Guinea-Bissau—creole groups have played
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
ideals of mauricianité are also practiced every day. A Tamil bus driver meets and greets his Creole colleague as Anyone, or even as a friend and colleague. In principle, the friendly banter over beer and rum in cheap restaurants includes everyone and
The Chaco Skies
A Socio-cultural History of Power Relations
Alejandro Martín López and Agustina Altman
the national state ‘project of modernity’ ( Asad 2003: 13–14 ). The rapid occupation of the Chaco and the arrival of new actors in the region, including military troops, missionaries, European immigrants, and creoles from other provinces, brought about
Professionalizing Persons and Foretelling Futures
Capacity Building in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Kristin LaHatte
. Ithaca : Cornell University Press. Stevens , A. M. 1995 . ‘ Manje in Haitian Creole: The Symbolic Significance of Manje in Haitian Creole’. Haitian Studies Association 1 ( 1 ): 75 – 88 . Stirrat , R. L. and H. Henkel . 2001
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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Jonathan A. Allan, Chris Haywood, and Frank G. Karioris
what can be known. As Carsten Levisen (2017: 383) points out in the context of linguistics, “if we impose categories on a creole or any other postcolonial dialect or language, because this category is relevant in European semantics, then, at best we
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
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- 01 Mar 2020
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Rethinking the Margins with André Schwarz-Bart
From The Last of the Just and A Woman Named Solitude to the Posthumous Narratives
Kathleen Gyssels
into the dense fabric of Schwarz-Bart’s masterpiece as I have shown in Marrane et Marronne. 17 When one turns to the other part of his writing, his subsequent Creole novels have not obtained the recognition he temporarily enjoyed with the Goncourt 1959
Les journaux francophones au dix-neuviéme siécle
Entre enjeux locaux et perspective globale
Guillaume Pinson
des Dix 55 (2001) : 175–190. 19 Voir la chronologie en annexe de l’ouvrage de Réginald Hamel, La Louisiane créole, littéraire, politique et sociale , vol. 2 (Ottawa : Leméac, 1984), 613. 20 Serge Gagnon, « Aubin, Napoléon », in Dictionnaire
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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