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

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

'Belinda Edmondson's brilliant study reminds us of the extent to which writing and reading have been made the proof of love, nationalism, belonging, authentic identity, even as...orality has been celebrated as the authentic discourse of the region first-rate cultural history, original both in its use of the archives, and in its interpretive insights.' - Small Axe 72

Product details

• Authors: Belinda Edmondson, Edmondson Belinda
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.2024
• EAN: 9780198914648
• ISBN: 978-0-19-891464-8
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative 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