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Creolization and creativity
Author(s) -
Eriksen Thomas Hylland
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
global networks
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.685
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1471-0374
pISSN - 1470-2266
DOI - 10.1111/1471-0374.00059
Subject(s) - creolization , creativity , contrast (vision) , sociology , aesthetics , epistemology , linguistics , psychology , anthropology , philosophy , social psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence
Abstract ‘A bit of this and a bit of that; that is how newness enters the world’, according to Salman Rushdie. In Ulf Hannerz's varied and voluminous work on cultural creolization, creativity and cultural ‘newness’ are often described. Examining this view of creativity, the essay contrasts processual and hybrid aspects of culture with its stable and structural aspects, showing how each implies a particular view of creativity. The contrast is developed through three very different kinds of examples: postcolonial literature, information technology and minority youth in Western Europe.