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Caribbean literary discourse : voice and cultural identity in the Anglophone Caribbean / Barbara Lalla, Jean D'Costa, and Velma Pollard.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caribbean literature (English)--History and criticism.
- Caribbean literature (English).
- Discourse analysis, Literary--Caribbean Area.
- Discourse analysis, Literary.
- National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature.
- Caribbean Area.
- Literature.
- National characteristics, Caribbean.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 277 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- In Caribbean Literary Discourse, authors Barbara Lalla, Jean D'Costa, and Velma Pollard examine the multicultural, multilingual, and Creolized languages of the Anglophone Caribbean world. They recount the development of local languages and literatures and explore the ways that the language choices of speakers and writers reflect issues of politics, society, identity, and self-representation. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Fusing forms and languages: the Jamaican experience
- Songs in the silence: literary craft as survival in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Jean D'Costa
- Black wholes: phases in the development of Jamaican literary discourse / Barbara Lalla
- The Caribbean novelist and language: a search for a literary medium / Jean D'Costa
- To us, all flowers are roses: writing ourselves into the literature of the Caribbean / Velma Pollard
- Creole and respec': authority and identity in the development of Caribbean literary discourse / Barbara Lalla
- Bra Rabbit meets Peter Rabbit: genre, audience, and the artistic imagination
- problems in writing children's fiction / Jean D'Costa
- "The dust": a tribute to the folk / Velma Pollard
- Collapsing certainty and the discourse of re-memberment in the novels of Merle Hodge / Barbara Lalla
- Cultural connections in Paule Marshall's Praise song for the widow / Velma Pollard
- Louise Bennett's dialect poetry: language variation in a literary text / Jean D'Costa
- Conceptual perspectives on time and timelessness in Martin Carter's "university of hunger" / Barbara Lalla
- Mixing codes and mixing voices: language in Earl Lovelace's Salt / Velma Pollard
- Opening salt: the oral-scribal continuum in Caribbean narrative / Barbara Lalla
- Mothertongue voices in the writing of Olive Senior and Lorna Goodison / Velma Pollard
- The facetiness factor: theorizing Caribbean space in narrative / Barbara Lalla.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780817318079
- 0817318070
- OCLC:
- 844728467
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