Biography

Michael S. Martin is director of the Center for Louisiana Studies and holds the Cheryl Courrégé Burguières/BORSF Professorship in History at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His most recent publications include Russell Long: A Life in Politics (2014); Louisiana Legacies: Readings in the History of the Pelican State (as co-editor, 2013); and Louisiana Beyond Black and White: Recent Interpretations of Twentieth-Century Race and Race Relations (as editor, 2011). Martin is managing editor of the journal Louisiana History.

Schedule

11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
State Capitol, House Committee Room 5
Book Talk
Creolization in the French Americas

Noon to 12:45 p.m.
Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent
Book Signing

Creolization in the French Americas

Creolization in the French Americas aims to uncover and explore the roots, development, and cultural dynamism of Creole society and culture in the colonial and post-colonial francophone world. The essays and creative works gathered here draw from distinct but related literatures emerging in the Francophone, Anglophone, African, and Caribbean scholarship on creolization, including such divergent fields as early modern European colonial history, dance choreography, psychoanalysis, linguistics, literary study of new world travel narratives, American Studies, museum studies, French literature, philosophy, art history, and African and African Diaspora studies. The collection embodies the conviction that complex phenomena like the emergence and evolution of Creole identity require perspectives that only a diversity of disciplines and points of view can offer, and that those disciplines and perspectives can come together and progress toward knowledge and understanding.