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- ISBN:9780521727457
- Format:Paperback
- Subject(s):First Language English
- Qualification:Caribbean
- Author(s):Peter A. Roberts
- Available from: December 2008
This book is original in its conception, perspective and treatment of the languages and identities of the West Indies as a whole.
£24.25
Availability: Manufactured on demand: supplied direct from the printer
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Written by a key and trusted author.
Winner of the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis book award.
Extensive use of historical resources.
Suitable for CAPE® examinations.
Illustrated and has at its central elements race, place and language which are seen as basic starting points for the constitution of identity.
Presents a lucid account of a movement from a written, wholly European construction of Caribbean identity towards a more Caribbean one.
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Ladinos, Caribs, Tainos, Criollos
- 3. Societies in the raw: from diversity to corruption
- 4. Creolisation, nativisation and enlightenment
- 5. The development of national identities in Hispaniola, Cuba and Puerto Rico
- 6. West Indians and Créoles in the smaller islands
- 7. Conclusion
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