Journal article

Creole Readings and Membranic Policies

Pages 203 to 211

Cite this article


  • Citton, Y.
(2005). Creole Readings and Membranic Policies. Multitudes, No 22(3), 203-211. https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.022.0203.

  • Citton, Yves.
« Creole Readings and Membranic Policies ». Multitudes, 2005/3 No 22, 2005. p.203-211. CAIRN.INFO, shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2005-3-page-203?lang=en.

  • CITTON, Yves,
2005. Creole Readings and Membranic Policies. Multitudes, 2005/3 No 22, p.203-211. DOI : 10.3917/mult.022.0203. URL : https://shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2005-3-page-203?lang=en.

https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.022.0203


English

Common sense often tends to identify Creolization with hybridization, as if tearing down boundaries and mixing up the heterogeneous were the defining features of Creolity. Drawing from recent theories of reading, this article attempts to locate the power of the Creole in the work of selection performed by boundaries conceived as membranes. A politics of filters and thrusts is thus sketched, along a series going from lectio to election, selection and intellection.

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