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Title:

Reassembling the fragments : voice and identity in Caribbean discourse / edited by Paula Morgan and Valerie Youssef.

Publisher:

University of the West Indies Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

vi, 198 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Caribbean literature--History and criticism.
Discourse analysis, Literary--Caribbean Area.
Sociolinguistics--Caribbean Area.
Creole dialects--Caribbean Area.
Englisch.
Kreolisch-Englisch.
Literatur.
Soziolinguistik.
Karibik.

Other Authors:

Morgan, Paula, editor of compilation.
Youssef, Valerie, editor of compilation.
Lalla, Barbara, 1949- contributor.
Robertson, Ian, contributor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Annotated bibliography of the works of Barbara Lalla and Ian Robertson / Niala Dwarika-Bhagat, Karen Eccles, Michelle Gill and Marsha Winter. 12. Tributes and critical appraisals. 1. Challenging the old and exploring the new : a tribute to Ian Robertson / Donald Winford -- 2. Barbara Lalla : a trandisciplinary intellectual / Velma Pollard -- 3. Towards a "wholeness of vision": criticism Lalla's way / Jennifer Rahim -- 4. Code-switching phenomena in oral and scribal discourse : Lalla's contribution / Valerie Youssef -- 5. Restoring the shattered nation-family in Lalla's Arch of fire / Paula Morgan -- 6. Ian Robertson : re-visioning the Creole voice / Valerie Youssef -- 7. Possible Caribbeans : assembling the fictional voice / Barbara Lalla -- Part 2. Trajectories of Creolization. 8. Fragments, centres and margins / Lise Winer -- 9. A comparison between the development of Palenquero Caribbean Creole and Swahili-Spanish interlanguage / María Landa Buil -- 10. Postcolonial historiography : Brereton and Naipaul documenting ethnic histories over and against national paradigms / Nivedita Misra -- 11. The role of sociohistorical factors in the processes of Creolization : evidence from Amerindian languages / Ian Robertson -- 12. Annotated bibliography of the works of Barbara Lalla and Ian Robertson / Niala Dwarika-Bhagat, Karen Eccles, Michelle Gill and Marsha Winter.

Summary:

This edited collection brings together the work of scholars in the field of Caribbean literary and linguistic study. Its genesis was the University of the West Indies 2011 commemorative conference in honor of recently retired professors Bridget Brereton, Barbara Lalla and Ian Robertson. This volume engages the seminal work done by Lalla and Robertson with focus on their contributions to theoretical constructs, original data collection and analysis, and the formation of a Caribbean-based ethos.

ISBN:

9789766404109
9766404100

OCLC:

(OCoLC)857711938

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)