Caribbean Literary Discourse - Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean (Hardcover, 3rd)

""Caribbean Literary Discourse""is a study of the multicultural, multilingual, and Creolized languages that characterize Caribbean discourse, especially as reflected in the language choices that preoccupy creative writers."
Caribbean Literary Discourse" opens the challenging world of language choices and literary experiments characteristic of the multicultural and multilingual Caribbean. In these societies, the language of the master-- English in Jamaica and Barbados--overlies the Creole languages of the majority. As literary critics and as creative writers, Barbara Lalla, Jean D'Costa, and Velma Pollard engage historical, linguistic, and literary perspectives to investigate the literature bred by this complex history. They trace the rise of local languages and literatures within the English speaking Caribbean, especially as reflected in the language choices of creative writers.
The study engages two problems: first, the historical reality that standard metropolitan English established by British colonialists dominates official economic, cultural, and political affairs in these former colonies, contesting the development of vernacular, Creole, and pidgin dialects even among the region's indigenous population; and second, the fact that literary discourse developed under such conditions has received scant attention.
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Caribbean Literary Discourse "explores the language choices that preoccupy creative writers in whose work vernacular discourse displays its multiplicity of origins, its elusive boundaries, and its most vexing issues. The authors address the degree to which language choice highlights political loyalties and tensions; the politics of identity, self-representation, and nationalism; the implications of code-switching--the ability to alternate deliberately between different languages, accents, or dialects--for identity in postcolonial society; the rich rhetorical and literary effects enabled by code-switching and the difficulties of acknowledging or teaching those ranges in traditional education systems; the longstanding interplay between oral and scribal culture; and the predominance of intertextuality in postcolonial and diasporic literature.

General

Imprint:	The University of Alabama Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2014
First published:	February 2014
Authors:	Barbara Lalla • Jean D'Costa • Velma Pollard
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	296
Edition:	3rd
ISBN-13:	978-0-8173-1807-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8173-1807-0
Barcode:	9780817318079

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