Research Catalog

Sing without shame : oral traditions in Indo-Portuguese Creole verse : with transcription and analysis of a nineteenth-century manuscript of Ceylon Portuguese

Title
Sing without shame : oral traditions in Indo-Portuguese Creole verse : with transcription and analysis of a nineteenth-century manuscript of Ceylon Portuguese / Kenneth David Jackson.
Author
Jackson, K. David (Kenneth David)
Publication
  • Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pubublishing Company ; Macau : Instituto Cultural de Macau, [1990]
  • ©1990

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Book/TextUse in library PM7849.C4 J3 1989Off-site

Details

Description
xxvii, 257 p., [11] p. of plates : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Creole language library, 0920-9026 ; v. 5
Uniform Title
Creole language library ; v. 5.
Subject
  • Creole poetry, Portuguese > Sri Lanka > History and criticism
  • Folk poetry, Portuguese > Sri Lanka > History and criticism
  • Literature and folklore > Sri Lanka
  • Creole dialects, Portuguese > India
  • Creole dialects, Portuguese
  • Creole poetry, Portuguese
  • Folk poetry, Portuguese
  • Literature and folklore
  • Kreolisch-Portugiesisch
  • Lyrik
  • Mündliche Überlieferung
  • Volksliteratur
  • Portugese creooltalen
  • Poésie populaire portugaise > Sri Lanka > Histoire et critique
  • Poésie créole > Sri Lanka > Histoire et critique
  • Poésie portugaise > Sri Lanka > Histoire et critique
  • Littérature et folklore > Sri Lanka
  • Langues créoles portugaises > Dialectes > Inde
  • India
  • Sri Lanka
  • Indien
  • Sri Lanka
  • Kreolisch-Portugiesisch
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-135).
Contents
Preface: Discovering South Asian Portuguese: texts and contexts -- Cinghli Nona, Cinghili Nona, Eu quere caza: Portuguese language and culture in Sri Lanka -- Portuguese Creoles on the West Coast of India -- The Nevill Manuscript of Sri Lankan Portuguese verse -- Comparative forms: unity of Indo-Portuguese Creole verse as oral tradition -- Portuguese Creole folklore of the East Coast Burghers of Sri Lanka: Batticaloa and Trincomalee -- Kaffirs and Kaferingha: music and verse out of Africa -- Valentine and Orson / Ourson e Falenteyn: a European folk narrative in Sri Lanka Portuguese -- Bela infanta of Sri Lanka: ballad fragments in Creole verse -- Cantha sen vargonya / Sing without shame Indo-Portuguese Creole verse -- Bibliography -- Appendix: The Nevill Manuscript ; Portuguese Song Batticaloa ; Cantiega de Purtiegese ; Illustrations ; Susaoe De Oersaan maas Falentine.
ISBN
  • 9027252254
  • 9789027252258
  • 1556190816
  • 9781556190810
LCCN
89018358
OCLC
  • ocm20692978
  • 20692978
  • SCSB-2052925
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library