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Caribbean literary discourse : voice and cultural identity in the Anglophone Caribbean

Title
Caribbean literary discourse : voice and cultural identity in the Anglophone Caribbean / Barbara Lalla, Jean D'Costa, and Velma Pollard.
Publication
Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2014]

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Additional Authors
  • Lalla, Barbara, 1949-
  • D'Costa, Jean.
  • Pollard, Velma.
Description
xiii, 277 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Caribbean literature (English) > History and criticism
  • Discourse analysis, Literary > Caribbean Area
  • National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-265) and index.
Contents
Fusing forms and languages: the Jamaican experience -- Songs in the silence: literary craft as survival in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Jean D'Costa -- Black wholes: phases in the development of Jamaican literary discourse / Barbara Lalla -- The Caribbean novelist and language: a search for a literary medium / Jean D'Costa -- To us, all flowers are roses: writing ourselves into the literature of the Caribbean / Velma Pollard -- Creole and respec': authority and identity in the development of Caribbean literary discourse / Barbara Lalla -- Bra Rabbit meets Peter Rabbit: genre, audience, and the artistic imagination -- problems in writing children's fiction / Jean D'Costa -- "The dust": a tribute to the folk / Velma Pollard -- Collapsing certainty and the discourse of re-memberment in the novels of Merle Hodge / Barbara Lalla -- Cultural connections in Paule Marshall's Praise song for the widow / Velma Pollard -- Louise Bennett's dialect poetry: language variation in a literary text / Jean D'Costa -- Conceptual perspectives on time and timelessness in Martin Carter's "university of hunger" / Barbara Lalla -- Mixing codes and mixing voices: language in Earl Lovelace's Salt / Velma Pollard -- Opening salt: the oral-scribal continuum in Caribbean narrative / Barbara Lalla -- Mothertongue voices in the writing of Olive Senior and Lorna Goodison / Velma Pollard -- The facetiness factor: theorizing Caribbean space in narrative / Barbara Lalla.
Call Number
Sc E 14-896
ISBN
  • 9780817318079 (trade cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0817318070 (trade cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0817387021
  • 9780817387020
  • 9780817387020 (e book) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2013017503
OCLC
844728467
Title
Caribbean literary discourse : voice and cultural identity in the Anglophone Caribbean / Barbara Lalla, Jean D'Costa, and Velma Pollard.
Publisher
Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2014]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-265) and index.
Added Author
Lalla, Barbara, 1949-
D'Costa, Jean.
Pollard, Velma.
Research Call Number
Sc E 14-896
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