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Creoles, Diasporas and Cosmopolitianisms - The Creolization of Nations, Cultural Migration, Global Languages and Literatures (Hardcover)
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Creoles, Diasporas and Cosmopolitianisms - The Creolization of Nations, Cultural Migration, Global Languages and Literatures (Hardcover)
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The purpose of this work is simply to provide a broad and thorough
(as opposed narrow and specific)overview to one of the key issues
in comparative language and literatures as well as in social and
political science, history, development studies, anthropology and
cultural studies. Professor Gallagher is one of the most active
researchers and editors on this topic and has assembled an
international group of scholars and investigators for a much needed
discussion of cultural identities and changing societies due to the
mas migration of people, the exportation of global cultures and the
engulfing of monocultural, monolingual cities and nations. The
phenomena of creoles, diasporas and cosmopolitianisms permeates all
literary debate at the moment. And, while occurring in the past,
the contemporary phenomena we are witnessing (and taking part in)
is of world changing significance. And that significance is
addressed by this work and its contributors which describes,
celebrates, analyzes and records this overwhelming contemporary
event.Creole languages appropriate pieces of other languages to
make up new composite grammars and vocabularies; creole societies
enroll, originally by force now mainly by economics, people from
diverse places and tribes. The incorporation that might be singled
out as the defining feature of the creole interacts with the
diffusion and memory characteristic of the diaspora and with the
attempt to construct or hold upon a cosmopolitan cultural spac
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