Barbara Lalla
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Defining Jamaican Fiction
Marronage and the Discourse of Survival
University of Alabama Press
Defining Jamaican Fiction focuses on the place of Jamaican fiction in the larger regional literature, on its essential themes, and on the strategies of discourse for conveying these themes.
- Copyright year: 1996
Language in Exile
Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole
By Barbara Lalla and Jean D'Costa
University of Alabama Press
"An important addition to studies of the genesis and life of Jamaican Creole as well as other New World creoles such as Gulla. Highlighting the nature of the nonstandard varieties of British English dialects to which the African slaves were exposed, this work presents a refreshingly cogent view of Jamaican Creole features."
--SECOL Review
- Copyright year: 2009
Voices in Exile
Jamaican Texts of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Edited by Jean D'Costa and Barbara Lalla
University of Alabama Press
The songs, sermons and other materials collected in this anthology thoroughly characterize and demonstrate the distinctive language and culture that developed when African and European exiles came together on the plantations of Jamaica. Accounts of planters, slave-trading captains, and other testimonies from both the colonial and indigenous population effectively illustrate the unfolding of this unique culture.
- Copyright year: 2009
Caribbean Literary Discourse
Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean
University of Alabama Press
A study of the multicultural, multilingual, and Creolized languages that characterize Caribbean discourse, especially as reflected in the language choices that preoccupy creative writers
- Copyright year: 2013
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