Caribbean Literary Discourse: Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean

by Barbara Lalla, Jean D'Costa, Velma Pollard

A study of the multicultural, multilingual, and Creolized languages that characterize Caribbean discourse, especially as reflected in the language choices that preoccupy creative writers

Caribbean Literary Discourse opens the challenging world of language choices and literary experiments characteristic of the multicultural and multilingual Caribbean. In these societies, the language of the master-- English in Jamaica and Barbados--overlies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817318070
• ISBN13: 9780817318079
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"