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17 produkter
Caribbean Literary Discourse
Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean
Av Barbara Lalla, Jean D'Costa m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
650 kr
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Caribbean Literary Discourse is a study of the multicultural, multilingual, and Creolised languages that characterise Caribbean discourse, especially as reflected in the language choices that preoccupy creative writers.Caribbean Literary Discourse opens the challenging world of language choices and …
Language in Exile
Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole
Av Barbara Lalla, Jean D'Costa
Häftad, 2009
395 kr
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'An important addition to studies of the genesis and life of Jamaican Creole as well as other New World creoles such as Gulla. Highlighting the nature of the nonstandard varieties of British English dialects to which the African slaves were exposed, this work presents a refreshingly cogent view of …
Voices in Exile
Jamaican Texts of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Av Barbara Lalla, Barbara Lalla m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
532 kr
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The songs, sermons and other materials collected in this anthology thoroughly characterize and demonstrate the distinctive language and culture that developed when African and European exiles came together on the plantations of Jamaica. Accounts of planters, slave-trading captains, and other …
Language in Exile
Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole
Av Jean D'Costa, Barbara Lalla
E-bok, 2009
682 kr
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"An important addition to studies of the genesis and life of Jamaican Creole as well as other New World creoles such as Gulla. Highlighting the nature of the nonstandard varieties of British English dialects to which the African slaves were exposed, this work presents a refreshingly cogent view of …
Caribbean Literary Discourse
Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean
Av Velma Pollard, Jean D'Costa m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
1065 kr
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A study of the multicultural, multilingual, and Creolized languages that characterize Caribbean discourse, especially as reflected in the language choices that preoccupy creative writers Caribbean Literary Discourse opens the challenging world of language choices and literary experiments …
Beyond Borders
Cross-culturalism and the Caribbean Canon
Av Jennifer Rahim, Barbara Lalla
Häftad, 2009
548 kr
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"Beyond Borders" is a multidisciplinary collection of essays with a focus on contemporary issues in Caribbean cultural studies. Culture and cultural identification are without a doubt highly charged political Goliaths with local and global ramifications. This is one of the reasons for the virtual …
Cascade
A Novel
Häftad, 2010
301 kr
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Barbara Lalla’s beautifully written novel explores a universal question: when, where and how does one grow old with dignity. The intricate story unfolds in Jamaica and Trinidad and tells a moving and suspenseful tale of families dealing with ageing in a shifting culture, where British-colonial …
Methods in Caribbean Research
Literature, Discourse, Culture
Av Barbara Lalla, Nicole Roberts m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
548 kr
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In the introduction to Methods in Caribbean Research, the editors ask, “What sets the Caribbean apart and justifies an application of scholarly method to its own needs? What defines the world of Caribbean letters? Why not merely apply established approaches to scholarship that work satisfactorily …
Uncle Brother
Häftad, 2014
439 kr
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Uncle Brother unfolds a tale of unflinching devotion against a tapestry of neglect and exploitation.Under the curious eyes of a succession of children glimmer fragments of stories that interlock to produce the saga of Nathan Deoraj – brother, uncle and teacher. The young boy on an early twentieth …
Postscripts
Caribbean Perspectives on the British Canon from Shakespeare to Dickens
Av Giselle Rampaul, Barbara Lalla
Häftad, 2014
486 kr
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By adopting a Caribbean perspective through which to re-examine seventeenth- to nineteenth-century texts from the British canon, this collection of essays uncovers the ways in which the literature produced at the height of British imperialism was used to consolidate and validate the national …
Grounds for Tenure
Häftad, 2017
424 kr
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A gifted young scholar clings desperately to part-time employment at a Caribbean university. Then, a post opens up on an unknown offshore campus in Portmore, Jamaica. Into this harsh yet delicate terrain ventures Candace Clarke, bent on taking root in an academic world. As her relationship with her …
One Thousand Eyes
Häftad, 2021
424 kr
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In One Thousand Eyes, a ragged troop of abandoned children fights to survive on a devastated Caribbean island. Eleven-year-old Myche marshals them out of the small sanctuary that is no longer safe, on a treacherous journey through destroyed cities and ravaged landscapes. In mountains and grottos, …
By Such a Parting Light
A Novel
Häftad, 2023
424 kr
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Disaster catapults three children into the care of their Caribbean grandparents, before another relative, elusive and perhaps unstable, makes a conflicting claim to guardianship. Balancing domestic calamity against her own compulsive writing, Aria faces physical and psychological threats, as a …
Defining Jamaican Fiction
Marronage and the Discourse of Survival
Inbunden, 1996
393 kr
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Maroons - slaves who escaped servitude to establish their own hegemonies - are central characters in Jamaican heritage, even influencing literary character types in Jamaican fiction. This work focuses on the place of Jamaican fiction in the larger regional literature.
Voices in Exile
Jamaican Texts of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Av Jean D'Costa, Barbara Lalla
Häftad, 2009
280 kr
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The songs, sermons and other materials collected in this anthology thoroughly characterize and demonstrate the distinctive language and culture that developed when African and European exiles came together on the plantations of Jamaica. Accounts of planters, slave-trading captains, and other …
Postcolonialisms
Caribbean Rereading of Medieval English Discourse
Häftad, 2008
542 kr
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Caribbean revisioning of British literature is well established in creative work where it expresses itself in rewriting and writing back. In addition, Caribbean literary criticism has included an occasional rereading of imperial text (like Shakespeare's "Tempest") that seems immediately applicable …
