This is another deliberately provocative post. From a flyer just received:
This will allow for the sharing of results stemming from this experience, and to discuss a possible adaptation to this model to Louisiana’s reality in the context of an inclusive and united Francophonie, and the necessity to invent new forms of cooperation. [emphasis added]
The project of united Francophonie is just so nineteenth century, for one thing. For a second, I think it is some postmodern form of colonialism. In still another way, it reminds me of Catalan separatism.
If I write on this I am likely to say things as unpublishable as what I have said in my rejected pieces on some theories of Chicano exceptionalism.
But créolité and all of that really are parallel to Chicano. Both are much more dependent and much more closely tethered to the colonial metropoli than are the larger and better established pan-Hispanic and pan-African movements.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 