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early Caribbean dialect literature and performance
1 online resource (viii, 192 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
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.
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.
This edition also issued in print: 2022.
Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.
Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022