Recent years have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest across disciplines around the concept “creolization” even as there has been some pushback against this development in other academic quarters. This article contextualizes this state of art around “creolization” and presents an analytical overview of the term’s discursive history. First, I discuss the appearance of the term creole in several areas of the world as an epiphenomenon of the first wave of European expansionism from the fifteenty century onward. Second, I track the emergence of “Creole” as an analytical category within nineteenth-century philology and its further development within linguistics. Third, I focus on milestones in the move of “creole” to “creolization” as a category for theorists of culture. Finally, I discuss recuperations of creolization as a theoretical model, including my own work that articulates it together with theoretical approaches to archipelagos.

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克里奥尔化转向及其群岛方向

近年来，围绕“克里奥尔化”概念的跨学科学术兴趣重新抬头，尽管其他学术界对这一发展提出了一些反对意见。本文将围绕“克里奥尔化”的这种艺术状态进行语境化，并对该术语的话语历史进行分析性概述。首先，我讨论这个词的出现克里奥尔语作为 150 世纪以来第一波欧洲扩张主义浪潮的附带现象，在世界多个地区出现。其次，我追踪了“克里奥尔语”作为 19 世纪语言学中的一个分析范畴的出现及其在语言学中的进一步发展。第三，我将重点放在“克里奥尔”向“克里奥尔化”转变的里程碑上，作为文化理论家的一个范畴。最后，我讨论了克里奥尔化的恢复作为一个理论模型，包括我自己的工作，将它与群岛的理论方法结合起来。