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A Transnational Temperance Discourse? William Wells Brown, Creole Civilization, and Temperate Manners

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2011
In the nineteenth century, temperance movements provided the occasion for a transnational discourse. These conversations possessed an intensity throughout Britain and the United States.
Carole Lynn Stewart
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"The Swede from North Dakota": Explicating a Euro-American Folksong

open access: yesEthnologia Europaea, 2021
“The Swede from North Dakota,” a narrative folksong or ballad performed in a broken-English “Scandihoovian” dialect, has circulated in differing versions throughout America’s Upper Midwest since the early 1900s.
James P Leary
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Language Creolization in Contemporary English-Language Nigerian Media Discourse

open access: yesНаучный диалог
This study analyzes the current state of the Nigerian variety of English within the English-language media landscape of Nigeria. The primary objective of the article is to assess the degree of creolization of the English language at the phonetic ...
T. G. Voloshina, Ya. A. Glebova
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The Finnic Tetrameter – A Creolization of Poetic Form?

open access: yesStudia Metrica et Poetica, 2019
This article presents a new theory on the origins of the common Finnic tetrameter as a poetic form (also called the Kalevala-meter, regilaul meter, etc.).
- Frog
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Wai Nengre: ’n verdere ondersoek na tendense in die letterkundes van drie voormalige Nederlandse kolonies

open access: yesTydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2015
This article expands on research that explores similar tendencies in the literatures of three former Dutch colonies: the literature from the Dutch Antilles and Surinam and black Afrikaans writing emanating from South Africa. It commences with an overview
Steward Van Wyk
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Banaras in the Indian Ocean: Circulating, Connecting and Creolizing Island Stories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
What links Bernardin de Saint Pierre’s 1788 novel about Isle de France, Paul et Virginie, with V.S. Naipaul’s 1972 piece, An overcrowded Barracoon? What is common to Joseph Conrad’s 1910 novella, A Smile of Fortune, and tourist brochures of La Grande ...
Ravi, Srilata
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Video introduction to issue 9

open access: yesAngles, 2019
This video introduces the thematic contributions on ‘Reinventing the Sea’.
Geetha Ganapathy-Doré, Ludmila Volná
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« Créoles », « Français », créolisation : identités et langues du père Labat à Thérèse Bentzon

open access: yesÉtudes Caribéennes, 2023
From the travel literature of the modern era describing the first French colonial societies to the quivering of West Indian literature in the 19th century, the use of the term ‘creole’ reveals the evolution of the discourse on identities and languages ...
Anna Forestier
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Creolization and the collective unconscious: locating the originality of art in Wilson Harris' Jonestown, The Mask of the Beggar and The Ghost of Memory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Alongside the essays and fiction of Edouard Glissant, Wilson Harris's writings stand as one of the most important contributions to Caribbean creolization theory.
Burns, L.
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Creolization and balkanization as a result of language (dialect) contact. Is the origin of mixed languages universal?

open access: yesSlavia Meridionalis, 2015
Creolization and balkanization as a result of language (dialect) contact. Is the origin of mixed languages universal? There are several types of language contact depending on the relations between languages.
Michał Głuszkowski
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