The Creolization of TheoryIntroducing this collection of essays, Franoise Lionnet and Shu mei Shih argue that looking backinvestigating the historical, intellectual, and political entanglements of contemporary academic disciplinesoffers a way for scholars in the humanities to move critical debates forward. They describe how disciplines or methodologies that seem distinct today emerged from overlapping intellectual and political currents in the 1960s and early 1970s, in the era