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UNINA9910794801703321 |
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Peake Jak |
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Between the Bocas : a literary geography of Western Trinidad / / Jak Peake [[electronic resource]] |
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Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2017 |
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1 online resource (xii, 326 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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American tropics : towards a literary geography |
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Trinidadian and Tobagonian literature - History |
Ethnicity in literature |
Trinidad and Tobago History 20th century |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2018). |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Situated opposite the mouth of the Orinoco River, western Trinidad has long been considered an entrepôt to mainland South America. Trinidad's geographic position-seen as strategic by various imperial governments-led to many heterogeneous peoples from across the region and globe settling or being relocated there. The calm waters around the Gulf of Paria on the western fringes of Trinidad induced settlers to construct a harbour, Port of Spain, around which the modern capital has been formed. From its colonial roots into the postcolonial era, western Trinidad therefore has played an especial part in the shaping of the island's literature. Viewed from one perspective, western Trinidad might be deemed as narrating the heart of the modern state's national literature. Alternatively, the political threats posed around San Fernando in Trinidad's southwest in the 1930s and from within the capital in the 1970s present a different picture of western Trinidad-one in which the fractures of Trinidad and Tobago's projected nationalism are prevalent.<br><br>While sugar remains a dominant narrative in Caribbean literary studies, this book offers a unique literary perspective on matters too often perceived as the sole preserve of sociological, anthropological or geographical studies. The legacy of the oil industry and the development of the suburban commuter belt of East-West |
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Corridor, therefore, form considerable discursive nodes, alongside other key Trinidadian sites, such as Woodford Square, colonial houses and the urban yards of Port of Spain. This study places works by well-known authors such as V. S. Naipaul and Samuel Selvon, alongside writing by Michel Maxwell Philip, Marcella Fanny Wilkins, E. L. Joseph, Earl Lovelace, Ismith Khan, Monique Roffey, Arthur Calder-Marshall, Zenga Longmore and the largely neglected novelist, Yseult Bridges, who is almost entirely forgotten today. Using fiction, calypso, history, memoir, legal accounts, poetry, essays and journalism, this study opens with an analysis of Trinidad's nineteenth century literature and offers twentieth century and more contemporary readings of the island in successive chapters. Chapters are roughly arranged in chronological order around particular sites and topoi, while literature from a variety of authors of British, Caribbean, Irish and Jewish descent is represented.<br><br> |
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UNINA9910821022403321 |
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Morgan Gary <1968-> |
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Understanding deafness, language, and cognitive development : essays in honour of Bencie Woll / / edited by Gary Morgan |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2020] |
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©2020 |
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1 online resource (xv, 214 pages) : illustrations |
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Trends in language acquisition research ; ; 25 |
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Deaf children - Education |
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Deafness, cognition and language : developmental perspectives / Gary Morgan -- Early communication in deaf and hearing children / Margaret Harris and John Clibbens -- Overlap in turn-taking in signed mother-child dyadic and triadic interactions / Anne Baker and Beppie Van den Bogaerde -- The assessment of signed languages / Ros |
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Herman, Nicola Grove, Tobias Haug, Wolfgang Mann and Philip Prinz -- Atypical sign language development / Chloë Marshall, Katherine Rowley, Joanna Atkinson, Tanya Denmark, Joanna Hoskins and Jechil Sieratzki -- Age of acquisition effects in language development / Diane Lillo-Martin, Neil Smith and Ianthi Tsimpli -- Links between language and cognitive development of deaf children / Gary Morgan, Anna Jones and Nicola Botting -- Perception and production of language in the visual modality : implications for sign language development / Matthew W.G. Dye and Robin L. Thompson -- Neurobiological insights from the study of deafness and sign language / Velia Cardin, Ruth Campbell, Mairéad MacSweeney, Emil Holmer, Jerker Rönnberg and Mary Rudner -- Educating bilingual and multilingual deaf children in the 21st century / Gladys Tang, Robert Adam and Karen Simpson -- Past, present and future? / Ruth Campbell. |
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"The study of childhood deafness offers researchers many interesting insights into the role of experience and sensory inputs on the development of language and cognition. This volume provides a state of the art look at these questions and how they are being applied in the areas of clinical and educational settings. It also marks the career and contributions of one of the deafness fields greatest scholars; Bencie Woll. As the deafness field goes through rapid and profound changes we hope this volume captures the latest understanding of this change on child development. The volume will be of essential interest to language development researchers as well as teachers and clinical researchers"-- |
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