Caribbean literary discourse : voice and cultural identity in the Anglophone Caribbean / / Barbara Lalla, Jean D'Costa, and Velma Pollard ; Jamie Buttram, cover design |
Autore | Lalla Barbara |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/9729 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
PollardVelma
D'CostaJean ButtramJamie |
Soggetto topico |
Caribbean literature (English) - History and criticism
Discourse analysis, Literary - Caribbean Area National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8173-8702-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Fusing forms and languages: the Jamaican experience -- Songs in the silence: literary craft as survival in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Jean D'Costa -- Black wholes: phases in the development of Jamaican literary discourse / Barbara Lalla -- The Caribbean novelist and language: a search for a literary medium / Jean D'Costa -- To us, all flowers are roses: writing ourselves into the literature of the Caribbean / Velma Pollard -- Creole and respec': authority and identity in the development of Caribbean literary discourse / Barbara Lalla -- Bra Rabbit meets Peter Rabbit: genre, audience, and the artistic imagination--problems in writing children's fiction / Jean D'Costa -- "The dust": a tribute to the folk / Velma Pollard -- Collapsing certainty and the discourse of re-memberment in the novels of Merle Hodge / Barbara Lalla -- Cultural connections in Paule Marshall's Praise song for the widow / Velma Pollard -- Louise Bennett's dialect poetry: language variation in a literary text / Jean D'Costa -- Conceptual perspectives on time and timelessness in Martin Carter's "university of hunger" / Barbara Lalla -- Mixing codes and mixing voices: language in Earl Lovelace's Salt / Velma Pollard -- Opening salt: the oral-scribal continuum in Caribbean narrative / Barbara Lalla -- Mothertongue voices in the writing of Olive Senior and Lorna Goodison / Velma Pollard -- The facetiness factor: theorizing Caribbean space in narrative / Barbara Lalla. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463973803321 |
Lalla Barbara | ||
Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Caribbean literary discourse : voice and cultural identity in the Anglophone Caribbean / / Barbara Lalla, Jean D'Costa, and Velma Pollard ; Jamie Buttram, cover design |
Autore | Lalla Barbara |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/9729 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
PollardVelma
D'CostaJean ButtramJamie |
Soggetto topico |
Caribbean literature (English) - History and criticism
Discourse analysis, Literary - Caribbean Area National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature |
ISBN | 0-8173-8702-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Fusing forms and languages: the Jamaican experience -- Songs in the silence: literary craft as survival in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Jean D'Costa -- Black wholes: phases in the development of Jamaican literary discourse / Barbara Lalla -- The Caribbean novelist and language: a search for a literary medium / Jean D'Costa -- To us, all flowers are roses: writing ourselves into the literature of the Caribbean / Velma Pollard -- Creole and respec': authority and identity in the development of Caribbean literary discourse / Barbara Lalla -- Bra Rabbit meets Peter Rabbit: genre, audience, and the artistic imagination--problems in writing children's fiction / Jean D'Costa -- "The dust": a tribute to the folk / Velma Pollard -- Collapsing certainty and the discourse of re-memberment in the novels of Merle Hodge / Barbara Lalla -- Cultural connections in Paule Marshall's Praise song for the widow / Velma Pollard -- Louise Bennett's dialect poetry: language variation in a literary text / Jean D'Costa -- Conceptual perspectives on time and timelessness in Martin Carter's "university of hunger" / Barbara Lalla -- Mixing codes and mixing voices: language in Earl Lovelace's Salt / Velma Pollard -- Opening salt: the oral-scribal continuum in Caribbean narrative / Barbara Lalla -- Mothertongue voices in the writing of Olive Senior and Lorna Goodison / Velma Pollard -- The facetiness factor: theorizing Caribbean space in narrative / Barbara Lalla. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787609303321 |
Lalla Barbara | ||
Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Caribbean literary discourse : voice and cultural identity in the Anglophone Caribbean / / Barbara Lalla, Jean D'Costa, and Velma Pollard ; Jamie Buttram, cover design |
Autore | Lalla Barbara |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/9729 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
PollardVelma
D'CostaJean ButtramJamie |
Soggetto topico |
Caribbean literature (English) - History and criticism
Discourse analysis, Literary - Caribbean Area National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature |
ISBN | 0-8173-8702-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Fusing forms and languages: the Jamaican experience -- Songs in the silence: literary craft as survival in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Jean D'Costa -- Black wholes: phases in the development of Jamaican literary discourse / Barbara Lalla -- The Caribbean novelist and language: a search for a literary medium / Jean D'Costa -- To us, all flowers are roses: writing ourselves into the literature of the Caribbean / Velma Pollard -- Creole and respec': authority and identity in the development of Caribbean literary discourse / Barbara Lalla -- Bra Rabbit meets Peter Rabbit: genre, audience, and the artistic imagination--problems in writing children's fiction / Jean D'Costa -- "The dust": a tribute to the folk / Velma Pollard -- Collapsing certainty and the discourse of re-memberment in the novels of Merle Hodge / Barbara Lalla -- Cultural connections in Paule Marshall's Praise song for the widow / Velma Pollard -- Louise Bennett's dialect poetry: language variation in a literary text / Jean D'Costa -- Conceptual perspectives on time and timelessness in Martin Carter's "university of hunger" / Barbara Lalla -- Mixing codes and mixing voices: language in Earl Lovelace's Salt / Velma Pollard -- Opening salt: the oral-scribal continuum in Caribbean narrative / Barbara Lalla -- Mothertongue voices in the writing of Olive Senior and Lorna Goodison / Velma Pollard -- The facetiness factor: theorizing Caribbean space in narrative / Barbara Lalla. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815429103321 |
Lalla Barbara | ||
Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Language in Exile [[electronic resource] ] : Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole |
Autore | Lalla Barbara |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Alabama, : University of Alabama Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
Disciplina |
427.927292
427.97292 427/.97292 |
Altri autori (Persone) | D'CostaJean |
Soggetto topico |
Creole dialects, English -- Jamaica -- History
Creole dialects, English -- Jamaica -- Texts |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8173-8409-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; Part One: Early Jamaican Creole; Introduction; 1. The Colonial Crucible; 2. Source Materials; 3. Reconstructing the Sound System; 4. Morphosyntax and Lexicon; 5. Language Variation; 6. Implications of the Data; Part Two Data and Commentary; 7. The Late Seventeenth Century; Text 1. Sir Hans Sloane, A Voyage to . . . the Islands Madera, Barbados, . . . and Jamaica; A. Angolan Chant; B. Koromanti Chant; 8. The Eighteenth Century; Text 2. The Importance of Jamaica to Great Britain Consider'd in a Letter to a Gentleman; Early Fragment
Text 3. A Short Journey in the West IndiesA. An Old Man of the Late Eighteenth Century; B. White Creole Child; Text 4. J. B. Moreton, West India Customs and Manners; Song: Hipsaw! My Deaa!; 9. The Early Nineteenth Century; Text 5. Captain Hugh Crow, Memoirs; Song Made by the People of Colour in Jamaica on Captain Hugh Crow; Text 6. Walter Jekyll, Jamaican Song and Story; Brother Annancy and Brother Death; Text 7. Montgomery; or, The West Indian Adventure; The Slave and the New Buckera; Text 8. Matthew G. Lewis, Journal of a West India Proprietor; A. Eerie; B. Song at Cornwall Estate Text 9. Song. "Quaco Sam"Text 10. Cynric R. Williams, A Tour through the Island of Jamaica in the Year 1823; A. Sermon at a Funeral; B. Song. Hi! De Buckra, Hi!; Text 11. Marly, or a Planter's Life in Jamaica; A. Kirstening; B. Sermon; C. Song: "The Woodpecka"; Text 12. Michael Scott, Tom Cringle's Log; A. A Black Sailor; B. The Black Pilot; Text 13. [Bernard Martin Senior], Jamaica as It Was, as It Is, and as It May Be; Arguing with Massa; Text 14. James M. Phillippo, Jamaica: Its Past and Present State; A. Letter from John Duglass; B. Letter from Richard Bullock; C. A Deacon's Prayer Text 15. Richard Robert Madden, A Twelvemonth Residence in the West IndiesA. The Language of Flattery; B. Mathew's Oration; Text 16. James Williams, Narrative of the Cruel Treatment . . . of a Negro Apprentice; An Apprentice's Testimony; 10. The Later Nineteenth Century; Text 17. Henry G. Murray, Manners and Customs of the Country a Generation Ago; Mudfish and Watchman; Text 18. [Henry G. Murray], in "Creole Folklore from Jamaica"; A. The Origin of Woman; B. Song. Oh! What Do My Buddy, O!; Text 19. William George Hamley, Captain Clutterbuck's Champagne; A. A Black Sailor's Yarn B. A Brown NurseText 20. Captain Mayne Reid, The Maroon; A. The Myal Man and the Parlormaid; B. The Myal Man and the Jew; Text 21. Thomas Russell, The Etymology of Jamaica Grammar; Text 22. C[harles] Rampini, Letters from Jamaica; Love Letters; Text 23. Mary Pamela Milne-Home, Mamma's Black Nurse Stories; Anansi and Alligator; Text 24. Cumina Chant: "Tange Lange Jeni"; Cumina Chant; The Odamttens' Glosses; Vincent Odamtten's Verse Translation; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457544803321 |
Lalla Barbara | ||
Alabama, : University of Alabama Press, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Language in Exile [[electronic resource] ] : Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole |
Autore | Lalla Barbara |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Alabama, : University of Alabama Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
Disciplina |
427.927292
427.97292 427/.97292 |
Altri autori (Persone) | D'CostaJean |
Soggetto topico |
Creole dialects, English -- Jamaica -- History
Creole dialects, English -- Jamaica -- Texts |
ISBN | 0-8173-8409-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; Part One: Early Jamaican Creole; Introduction; 1. The Colonial Crucible; 2. Source Materials; 3. Reconstructing the Sound System; 4. Morphosyntax and Lexicon; 5. Language Variation; 6. Implications of the Data; Part Two Data and Commentary; 7. The Late Seventeenth Century; Text 1. Sir Hans Sloane, A Voyage to . . . the Islands Madera, Barbados, . . . and Jamaica; A. Angolan Chant; B. Koromanti Chant; 8. The Eighteenth Century; Text 2. The Importance of Jamaica to Great Britain Consider'd in a Letter to a Gentleman; Early Fragment
Text 3. A Short Journey in the West IndiesA. An Old Man of the Late Eighteenth Century; B. White Creole Child; Text 4. J. B. Moreton, West India Customs and Manners; Song: Hipsaw! My Deaa!; 9. The Early Nineteenth Century; Text 5. Captain Hugh Crow, Memoirs; Song Made by the People of Colour in Jamaica on Captain Hugh Crow; Text 6. Walter Jekyll, Jamaican Song and Story; Brother Annancy and Brother Death; Text 7. Montgomery; or, The West Indian Adventure; The Slave and the New Buckera; Text 8. Matthew G. Lewis, Journal of a West India Proprietor; A. Eerie; B. Song at Cornwall Estate Text 9. Song. "Quaco Sam"Text 10. Cynric R. Williams, A Tour through the Island of Jamaica in the Year 1823; A. Sermon at a Funeral; B. Song. Hi! De Buckra, Hi!; Text 11. Marly, or a Planter's Life in Jamaica; A. Kirstening; B. Sermon; C. Song: "The Woodpecka"; Text 12. Michael Scott, Tom Cringle's Log; A. A Black Sailor; B. The Black Pilot; Text 13. [Bernard Martin Senior], Jamaica as It Was, as It Is, and as It May Be; Arguing with Massa; Text 14. James M. Phillippo, Jamaica: Its Past and Present State; A. Letter from John Duglass; B. Letter from Richard Bullock; C. A Deacon's Prayer Text 15. Richard Robert Madden, A Twelvemonth Residence in the West IndiesA. The Language of Flattery; B. Mathew's Oration; Text 16. James Williams, Narrative of the Cruel Treatment . . . of a Negro Apprentice; An Apprentice's Testimony; 10. The Later Nineteenth Century; Text 17. Henry G. Murray, Manners and Customs of the Country a Generation Ago; Mudfish and Watchman; Text 18. [Henry G. Murray], in "Creole Folklore from Jamaica"; A. The Origin of Woman; B. Song. Oh! What Do My Buddy, O!; Text 19. William George Hamley, Captain Clutterbuck's Champagne; A. A Black Sailor's Yarn B. A Brown NurseText 20. Captain Mayne Reid, The Maroon; A. The Myal Man and the Parlormaid; B. The Myal Man and the Jew; Text 21. Thomas Russell, The Etymology of Jamaica Grammar; Text 22. C[harles] Rampini, Letters from Jamaica; Love Letters; Text 23. Mary Pamela Milne-Home, Mamma's Black Nurse Stories; Anansi and Alligator; Text 24. Cumina Chant: "Tange Lange Jeni"; Cumina Chant; The Odamttens' Glosses; Vincent Odamtten's Verse Translation; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778911003321 |
Lalla Barbara | ||
Alabama, : University of Alabama Press, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Language in Exile : Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole |
Autore | Lalla Barbara |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Alabama, : University of Alabama Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
Disciplina |
427.927292
427.97292 427/.97292 |
Altri autori (Persone) | D'CostaJean |
Soggetto topico |
Creole dialects, English -- Jamaica -- History
Creole dialects, English -- Jamaica -- Texts |
ISBN | 0-8173-8409-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; Part One: Early Jamaican Creole; Introduction; 1. The Colonial Crucible; 2. Source Materials; 3. Reconstructing the Sound System; 4. Morphosyntax and Lexicon; 5. Language Variation; 6. Implications of the Data; Part Two Data and Commentary; 7. The Late Seventeenth Century; Text 1. Sir Hans Sloane, A Voyage to . . . the Islands Madera, Barbados, . . . and Jamaica; A. Angolan Chant; B. Koromanti Chant; 8. The Eighteenth Century; Text 2. The Importance of Jamaica to Great Britain Consider'd in a Letter to a Gentleman; Early Fragment
Text 3. A Short Journey in the West IndiesA. An Old Man of the Late Eighteenth Century; B. White Creole Child; Text 4. J. B. Moreton, West India Customs and Manners; Song: Hipsaw! My Deaa!; 9. The Early Nineteenth Century; Text 5. Captain Hugh Crow, Memoirs; Song Made by the People of Colour in Jamaica on Captain Hugh Crow; Text 6. Walter Jekyll, Jamaican Song and Story; Brother Annancy and Brother Death; Text 7. Montgomery; or, The West Indian Adventure; The Slave and the New Buckera; Text 8. Matthew G. Lewis, Journal of a West India Proprietor; A. Eerie; B. Song at Cornwall Estate Text 9. Song. "Quaco Sam"Text 10. Cynric R. Williams, A Tour through the Island of Jamaica in the Year 1823; A. Sermon at a Funeral; B. Song. Hi! De Buckra, Hi!; Text 11. Marly, or a Planter's Life in Jamaica; A. Kirstening; B. Sermon; C. Song: "The Woodpecka"; Text 12. Michael Scott, Tom Cringle's Log; A. A Black Sailor; B. The Black Pilot; Text 13. [Bernard Martin Senior], Jamaica as It Was, as It Is, and as It May Be; Arguing with Massa; Text 14. James M. Phillippo, Jamaica: Its Past and Present State; A. Letter from John Duglass; B. Letter from Richard Bullock; C. A Deacon's Prayer Text 15. Richard Robert Madden, A Twelvemonth Residence in the West IndiesA. The Language of Flattery; B. Mathew's Oration; Text 16. James Williams, Narrative of the Cruel Treatment . . . of a Negro Apprentice; An Apprentice's Testimony; 10. The Later Nineteenth Century; Text 17. Henry G. Murray, Manners and Customs of the Country a Generation Ago; Mudfish and Watchman; Text 18. [Henry G. Murray], in "Creole Folklore from Jamaica"; A. The Origin of Woman; B. Song. Oh! What Do My Buddy, O!; Text 19. William George Hamley, Captain Clutterbuck's Champagne; A. A Black Sailor's Yarn B. A Brown NurseText 20. Captain Mayne Reid, The Maroon; A. The Myal Man and the Parlormaid; B. The Myal Man and the Jew; Text 21. Thomas Russell, The Etymology of Jamaica Grammar; Text 22. C[harles] Rampini, Letters from Jamaica; Love Letters; Text 23. Mary Pamela Milne-Home, Mamma's Black Nurse Stories; Anansi and Alligator; Text 24. Cumina Chant: "Tange Lange Jeni"; Cumina Chant; The Odamttens' Glosses; Vincent Odamtten's Verse Translation; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826175503321 |
Lalla Barbara | ||
Alabama, : University of Alabama Press, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Voices in exile : Jamaican texts of the 18th and 19th centuries / / edited by Jean D'Costa and Barbara Lalla |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 1989 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (174 p.) |
Disciplina | 427.97292 |
Soggetto topico | Creole dialects, English - Jamaica |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8173-8403-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Pre-Emancipation: The 18th Century; Grace before Rats; Francis Williams, a Double Exile; Welcome, Welcome, Brother Debtor; J. B. Moreton, West India Customs and Manners; If Me Want fe Go in a Ebo; Me Know No Law, Me Know No Sin; Tajo! My Mackey Massa!; Polite Conversation; Yellow Snake; Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons; One Wife Too Many; Married without Swear; 2. Pre-Emancipation: The 19th Century; George Ross, Diary; The Maroons Defrauded; Captain Hugh Crow, Memoirs; Old Shipmates Meet
Recollections of the Middle PassagePartners: The African Traders; The Welcome in Kingston; Walter Jekyll, Editor, Jamaican Song and story; Dry-bone; Matthew G. Lewis, Journal of a West India Proprietor; The Runaway; Song of the King of the Eboes; Mammy Luna: A Nancy Story; The Old Woman with No Head; Carry Him Along!; Cynric R. Williams, A Tour through the Island of Jamaica; Sermon at a Slave's Funeral; Ebenezer in the Bilboes; Ebenezer and the Mules; Buckra Parson; Marly; or, A Planter's Life in Jamaica; Rat Good fe Nyam; A Flogging; White Creoles at a Ball "De Black Man's Lub Song" (Caricature and Verse). Sketched and Written by a Native ArtistMichael Scott, Tom Cringle's Log; Quacco's Graveside; Sergeant Heavystern; John Canoe; A Dispute over Breakfast; [Bernard Martin Senior], Jamaica, as It Was, as It ls, and as It May Be, by a Retired Military Officer; Turning Out; A Rebel's Appeal; 3. Apprenticeship: 1834-1838; Edward Bean Underhill, The Life of James Mursell Phillippo; A Prayer on Emancipation Day; James Mursell Phillippo, Jamaica: Its Past and Present State; Answering Charges; Born Again; Between Two Masters 4. Post-Emancipation: 1838 and BeyondRichard Robert Madden, A Twelvemonth Residence in the West Indies; Chant at a Funeral; A Letter Written by Abu Bakr of Timbuktu; Dead Planters, Ruined Plantations; Narrative of the Cruel Treatment of James Williams, A Negro Apprentice in Jamaica from 1st August, 1834, Till the Purchase of His Freedom in 1837 by Joseph Sturge, Esq., of Birmingham, by Whom He Was Brought to England; Isaac Mendes Belisario, Sketches of Character of the Negro Population; Lovey's Song; The Reverend R. Banbury, Jamaica Superstitions; or, The Obeah Book; Token Show Song of the Shadow-CatchersObeah-pulling Songs; Return of the Obeahmen; Henry G. Murray, Manners and Customs of the Country a Generation Ago: Tom Kittle's Wake; William George Hamley, Captain Clutterbuck's Champagne; Domingo Visits the Clergyman; Mourners; The Creole and the African; Leander and the Daddy; C[harles] Rampini, Letters from Jamaica; The Old Servant; Annancy and Tiger; Why Hawks Eat Fowls; Grace; Notes; Glossary; Select Bibliography |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464192203321 |
Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 1989 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Voices in exile : Jamaican texts of the 18th and 19th centuries / / editors, Jean D'Costa, Barbara Lalla |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 1989 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (174 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 427.97292 |
Soggetto topico | Creole dialects, English - Jamaica |
ISBN | 0-8173-8403-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Pre-Emancipation: The 18th Century; Grace before Rats; Francis Williams, a Double Exile; Welcome, Welcome, Brother Debtor; J. B. Moreton, West India Customs and Manners; If Me Want fe Go in a Ebo; Me Know No Law, Me Know No Sin; Tajo! My Mackey Massa!; Polite Conversation; Yellow Snake; Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons; One Wife Too Many; Married without Swear; 2. Pre-Emancipation: The 19th Century; George Ross, Diary; The Maroons Defrauded; Captain Hugh Crow, Memoirs; Old Shipmates Meet
Recollections of the Middle Passage Partners: The African Traders; The Welcome in Kingston; Walter Jekyll, Editor, Jamaican Song and story; Dry-bone; Matthew G. Lewis, Journal of a West India Proprietor; The Runaway; Song of the King of the Eboes; Mammy Luna: A Nancy Story; The Old Woman with No Head; Carry Him Along!; Cynric R. Williams, A Tour through the Island of Jamaica; Sermon at a Slave's Funeral; Ebenezer in the Bilboes; Ebenezer and the Mules; Buckra Parson; Marly; or, A Planter's Life in Jamaica; Rat Good fe Nyam; A Flogging; White Creoles at a Ball "De Black Man's Lub Song" (Caricature and Verse). Sketched and Written by a Native Artist Michael Scott, Tom Cringle's Log; Quacco's Graveside; Sergeant Heavystern; John Canoe; A Dispute over Breakfast; [Bernard Martin Senior], Jamaica, as It Was, as It ls, and as It May Be, by a Retired Military Officer; Turning Out; A Rebel's Appeal; 3. Apprenticeship: 1834-1838; Edward Bean Underhill, The Life of James Mursell Phillippo; A Prayer on Emancipation Day; James Mursell Phillippo, Jamaica: Its Past and Present State; Answering Charges; Born Again; Between Two Masters 4. Post-Emancipation: 1838 and Beyond Richard Robert Madden, A Twelvemonth Residence in the West Indies; Chant at a Funeral; A Letter Written by Abu Bakr of Timbuktu; Dead Planters, Ruined Plantations; Narrative of the Cruel Treatment of James Williams, A Negro Apprentice in Jamaica from 1st August, 1834, Till the Purchase of His Freedom in 1837 by Joseph Sturge, Esq., of Birmingham, by Whom He Was Brought to England; Isaac Mendes Belisario, Sketches of Character of the Negro Population; Lovey's Song; The Reverend R. Banbury, Jamaica Superstitions; or, The Obeah Book; Token Show Song of the Shadow-Catchers Obeah-pulling Songs; Return of the Obeahmen; Henry G. Murray, Manners and Customs of the Country a Generation Ago: Tom Kittle's Wake; William George Hamley, Captain Clutterbuck's Champagne; Domingo Visits the Clergyman; Mourners; The Creole and the African; Leander and the Daddy; C[harles] Rampini, Letters from Jamaica; The Old Servant; Annancy and Tiger; Why Hawks Eat Fowls; Grace; Notes; Glossary; Select Bibliography |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789243703321 |
Tuscaloosa : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 1989 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Voices in exile : Jamaican texts of the 18th and 19th centuries / / editors, Jean D'Costa, Barbara Lalla |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 1989 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (174 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 427.97292 |
Soggetto topico | Creole dialects, English - Jamaica |
ISBN | 0-8173-8403-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Pre-Emancipation: The 18th Century; Grace before Rats; Francis Williams, a Double Exile; Welcome, Welcome, Brother Debtor; J. B. Moreton, West India Customs and Manners; If Me Want fe Go in a Ebo; Me Know No Law, Me Know No Sin; Tajo! My Mackey Massa!; Polite Conversation; Yellow Snake; Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons; One Wife Too Many; Married without Swear; 2. Pre-Emancipation: The 19th Century; George Ross, Diary; The Maroons Defrauded; Captain Hugh Crow, Memoirs; Old Shipmates Meet
Recollections of the Middle Passage Partners: The African Traders; The Welcome in Kingston; Walter Jekyll, Editor, Jamaican Song and story; Dry-bone; Matthew G. Lewis, Journal of a West India Proprietor; The Runaway; Song of the King of the Eboes; Mammy Luna: A Nancy Story; The Old Woman with No Head; Carry Him Along!; Cynric R. Williams, A Tour through the Island of Jamaica; Sermon at a Slave's Funeral; Ebenezer in the Bilboes; Ebenezer and the Mules; Buckra Parson; Marly; or, A Planter's Life in Jamaica; Rat Good fe Nyam; A Flogging; White Creoles at a Ball "De Black Man's Lub Song" (Caricature and Verse). Sketched and Written by a Native Artist Michael Scott, Tom Cringle's Log; Quacco's Graveside; Sergeant Heavystern; John Canoe; A Dispute over Breakfast; [Bernard Martin Senior], Jamaica, as It Was, as It ls, and as It May Be, by a Retired Military Officer; Turning Out; A Rebel's Appeal; 3. Apprenticeship: 1834-1838; Edward Bean Underhill, The Life of James Mursell Phillippo; A Prayer on Emancipation Day; James Mursell Phillippo, Jamaica: Its Past and Present State; Answering Charges; Born Again; Between Two Masters 4. Post-Emancipation: 1838 and Beyond Richard Robert Madden, A Twelvemonth Residence in the West Indies; Chant at a Funeral; A Letter Written by Abu Bakr of Timbuktu; Dead Planters, Ruined Plantations; Narrative of the Cruel Treatment of James Williams, A Negro Apprentice in Jamaica from 1st August, 1834, Till the Purchase of His Freedom in 1837 by Joseph Sturge, Esq., of Birmingham, by Whom He Was Brought to England; Isaac Mendes Belisario, Sketches of Character of the Negro Population; Lovey's Song; The Reverend R. Banbury, Jamaica Superstitions; or, The Obeah Book; Token Show Song of the Shadow-Catchers Obeah-pulling Songs; Return of the Obeahmen; Henry G. Murray, Manners and Customs of the Country a Generation Ago: Tom Kittle's Wake; William George Hamley, Captain Clutterbuck's Champagne; Domingo Visits the Clergyman; Mourners; The Creole and the African; Leander and the Daddy; C[harles] Rampini, Letters from Jamaica; The Old Servant; Annancy and Tiger; Why Hawks Eat Fowls; Grace; Notes; Glossary; Select Bibliography |
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Tuscaloosa : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 1989 | ||
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