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creolize

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creolize - To relax in an elegant fashion in a warm climate.
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Verb1.creolize - develop into a creole; "pidgins often creolize"
change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"


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Mimicry is, thus, the vehicle with which both Ralph and Gurudeva bring visibility to their versions of East Indianness and attempt to creolize their identities.
Hy se: Across a whole range of cultural forms there is a powerfully syncretic dynamic which critically appropriates elements from the master-codes of the dominant culture and creolizes them, disarticulating given signs and rearticulating their symbolic meaning otherwise.
Mary Seacole's rebellious, independent, competitive, Jamaican woman's spirit creolizes and feminizes the European male space that is the Crimean war zone, but her achievements are represented as individual accomplishments that celebrate service and devotion to patriarchal authority and Empire, as embodied in the British military.
 
 
 
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