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Phonology in the basilect the fate of final consonants in Liberian Interior English
Studies in African Linguistics, 1991 Pidginized Liberian Interior English (LIE) has English as its lexifier language and Mande languages as its substrate. Broadly speaking, this means that LIE takes its lexicon from English and its phonology from Mande.
John Victor Singler
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Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2011 This article proposes to look at the way Rastafarians were portrayed in various ways by West Indian poets in the 1960s and 1970s. After paying attention to the historical and cultural context, the article focuses on three main strands in the portrayal of
Eric Doumerc
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Jean Rhys: the Writings of a Woman Touched by the British Empire
Journal of English Studies, 2019 The starting point of this essay is the assumption that The British Empire, while it lasted, but also after its collapse, produced literature extolling its virtues and faults, which influenced some English authors in favour of or against colonialism ...
Francisco Javier Gil Jacinto
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Indigeneity behind the Scenes: Invasion and Kriolisation
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2015 This paper seeks to explore the relations between Indigenous and Creole modes of existence and political situations. It combines a theoretical and ethnographic approach to explore the Aboriginal concept of “law and culture” as it emerged in the Kimberley
Martin Préaud
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Patrimoine mobilier : entre colonialisme et orientalisme
In Situ, 2013 In the seventeenth century, France established plantation colonies in the islands of the Caribbean and Indian Ocean. Within fifty years these had become important sites of commerce that supplied valuable raw materials and agricultural commodities.
Madeleine Dobie
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Slave naming patterns : onomastics and the taxonomy of race in eighteenth-century Jamaica [PDF]
, 2001 Every year, slave owners responsible for managing estates were required by Jamaican law to submit to the local vestry an account of the whites, slaves, and livestock on their properties.
Burnard, Trevor
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"The maniac bellowed" : queer affect and queer temporality in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre [PDF]
, 2015 textCharlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre, is commonly read as a feminist bildungsroman in which a young woman claims her independence. In opposition to these readings, I instead choose to question the ways in which the novel's feminist potential is elided
Davis, Carolyn Marjorie
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Attributive possession in 19th century Mauritian Creole [PDF]
, 2016 The paper examines the attributive possessive structures attested in 19th century Mauritian Creole. It is first shown that these include a construction with the preposition pou ‘for’, which has not been mentioned in the literature.
Avram, Andrei
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Carnets, 2020 There is a number of identities which present themselves to the individuals along their lives. The notion of identity takes diverse forms, becomes dynamic, changeable, and evolves through conflicts and breaks, both in time and in space.
Anikó Ádám
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No give up, maan!, de Hazel Robinson, desde la periferia de la comunidad letrada
Estudios de Literatura Colombiana, 2022 No give up, maan! ¡No te rindas! (2002), de Hazel Robinson Abrahams (1935), puede considerarse como una ficción (re)fundacional. Desde una postura decolonial, que visibiliza un territorio y una historia no contados, esta novela pone sobre la mesa la ...
Nayra Pérez Hernández +1 more
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