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The dialogic nation of Cape Verde : slavery, language, and ideology / Márcia Rego.
Van Pelt Library PM7849.C37 R44 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rego, Márcia, 1963- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Creole dialects, Portuguese--Social aspects--Cabo Verde.
- Creole dialects, Portuguese.
- Portuguese language--Social aspects--Cabo Verde.
- Portuguese language.
- Language and culture--Cabo Verde.
- Language and culture.
- Language and languages.
- Social aspects.
- Portuguese language--Social aspects.
- Cabo Verde--Languages--Social aspects.
- Cabo Verde.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015.
- Summary:
- The Dialogic Nation of Cape Verde: Slavery, Language, and Ideology is an ethnographic study of language use and ideology in Cape Verde, from its early settlement as a center for slave trade, to the postcolonial present. The study is methodologically rich and innovative in that it weaves together historical, linguistic, and ethnographic data from different eras with sketches of contemporary life-a homicide trial, a scholarly meeting, a competition for a new national flag, a heterodox Catholic mass, an analysis of love letters, a priest's sermon, and a death in the neighborhood. In all these different contexts, Márcia Rego focuses on the role of Kriolu (the Cape Verdean Creole) and its relation to Portuguese-that is, on the way people live through speaking. The Dialogic Nation of Cape Verde shows how, through the dialogic give-and-take of the two languages, Cape Verdeans wrestle with deep-seated colonial hierarchies, invent and rehearse new traditions, and articulate their identity as a sovereign, creole nation. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Kriolu origins
- Speaking of Kriolu
- Postcolonial Kriolu nation
- Mingling tongues and the breaching of hierarchy
- Speaking of self and family
- The language of death
- Rewording resistance
- Spreading the word
- Closing remarks
- Appendix: The sounds of the ALUPEC alphabet.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-183) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780739193778
- 0739193775
- OCLC:
- 900180167
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