About the Author

Robert Baron, Brooklyn, New York, directs the folk arts program of the New York State Council on the Arts. He is the coeditor, with Nick Spitzer, of Public Folklore.|Folklorist Ana C. Cara, Oberlin, Ohio, is professor of Hispanic studies at Oberlin College. Her articles have appeared in Journal of American Folklore, World Literature Today, and Latin American Research Review.

Reviews

Creolization as Cultural Creativity teaches us how to think about the many verbal ways that people on the lower rungs dynamically express and remake themselves in challenging cultural circumstances. How do they respond and create something new? In these trying historical times, I find this an immensely helpful, hopeful, and even liberating scholarly book.--Edward Hirsch, author of The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems and How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry