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Descriptions, Translations and the Caribbean - From Fruits to Rastafarians (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Descriptions, Translations and the Caribbean - From Fruits to Rastafarians (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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This book offers a new perspective on the role played by colonial
descriptions and translation of Caribbean plants in representations
of Caribbean culture. Through thorough examination of Caribbean
phytonyms in lexicography, colonization, history, songs and
translation studies, the authors argue that the Westernisation of
vernacular phytonyms, while systematizing the nomenclature, blurred
and erased the cultural tradition of Caribbean plants and medicinal
herbs. Means of transmission and preservation of this oral culture
was in the plantation songs and herb vendor songs. Musical
creativity is a powerful form of resistance, as in the case of
Reggae music and the rise of Rastafarians, and Bob Marley's
'untranslatable' lyrics. This book will be of interest to scholars
of Caribbean studies and to linguists interested in pushing the
current Eurocentric boundaries of translation studies.
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