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 Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphaël Confiant’s 1989 manifesto, Eloge de la Créolité (In Praise of Creoleness) to our understanding of Creoleness today. Professor Cope’s presentation, “Antillanité, Américanité, and Créolité in Lakshmi Persaud’s Butterfly in the Wind,” examined Indo-Trinidadians’ unique relationship to the Caribbean, assimilation, and the notion of Creoleness through the lens of Persaud’s diasporic culinary fiction.
Robyn Cope
November 17, 2014