Creole noise : early Caribbean dialect literature and performance / Belinda Edmondson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edmondson, Belinda, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean literature (English)--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature (English).

West Indian literature (English)--History and criticism.

West Indian literature (English).

English literature--Caribbean influences.

English literature.

Race in literature.

Creole literature--History and criticism.

Creole literature.

West Indies--History--In literature.

West Indies.

Caribbean Area--History--In literature.

Caribbean Area.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 192 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Early Caribbean dialect literature and performance

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This work is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean. It revises the common view that literary dialect in the Caribbean was a relatively modern twentieth-century phenomenon, and explores both the lives and the literary texts of a number of early progenitors.

Contents:

Introduction: Speaking badly (in prose)

White Creoles, 'bad' grammar, and the birth of dialect

literature

Violent ventriloquism: the golden age

The Charles Dickens of Jamaica

Travelling dialect

Home to Harlem

Epilogue: Global creole.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-183) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Edmondson, Belinda Creole Noise

ISBN:

0-19-194740-7

0-19-267081-6

0-19-267082-4