Creole Noise - Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance

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.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Additional text

This engrossing, detailed volume of the origins of Creole dialect affirms its authenticity as the lingua franca of the Caribbean and validates Creole as the authoritative mode of communication in speech, literature, and the performing arts.

Product details

• Authors: Belinda Edmondson, Belinda (Professor of English and Afric Edmondson, Edmondson Belinda
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9780192856838
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285683-8
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, Caribbean islands, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, Dialect, slang & jargon, Dialect, slang and jargon, Pidgins and Creoles, Pidgins & Creoles