Creole Is: An Experiment in Autoethnography

Writing and speaking across a number of genres about mixed ethnicity, Indigenous culture in Louisiana, mental illness, and white passing, Jeffery U. Darensbourg is always having to explain something, including where he lives, Bulbancha, which others call “New Orleans,” much to his disapproval. A Creative Resident at Bloedel Reserve, he presents some of his recent work complicating and illuminating matters close to him.