This book 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.
This book 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.
Belinda Edmondson is Professor of English and African American & African Studies at Rutgers University, Newark. She is the author of several books on Caribbean literature and has won numerous grants and fellowships for her research. She is an elected member of the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars.
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Introduction: Speaking Badly (In Prose) 1: White Creoles, 'Bad' Grammar, and the Birth of Dialect Literature 2: Violent Ventriloquism: The Golden Age 3: The Charles Dickens of Jamaica 4: Travelling Dialect 5: Home to Harlem Epilogue: Global Creole
Introduction: Speaking Badly (In Prose) 1: White Creoles, 'Bad' Grammar, and the Birth of Dialect Literature 2: Violent Ventriloquism: The Golden Age 3: The Charles Dickens of Jamaica 4: Travelling Dialect 5: Home to Harlem Epilogue: Global Creole
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