| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 192 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
| Contents |
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 |
| 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 |
| Notes |
This edition also issued in print: 2022 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, discography and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 8, 2022) |
| Subject |
Caribbean literature (English) -- History and criticism
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Creole literature -- History and criticism
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Creole dialects, English -- Caribbean Area -- History
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Creole literature
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Caribbean literature (English)
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Creole dialects, English
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Manners and customs
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| SUBJECT |
Caribbean, English-speaking -- Social life and customs -- History
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Caribbean, English-speaking -- Social life and customs
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| Subject |
Caribbean Area
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English-speaking Caribbean Area
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191947407 |
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0191947407 |
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9780192670823 |
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0192670824 |
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