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Dread Talk: The Rastafarians' Linguistic Response To Societal Oppression, Carol Anne Manget-Johnson
Dread Talk: The Rastafarians' Linguistic Response To Societal Oppression, Carol Anne Manget-Johnson
English Theses
Opposed to the repressive socio-economic political climate that resulted in the impoverishment of masses of Jamaicans, the Jamaican Rastafarians developed a language to resist societal oppression. This study examines that language--Dread Talk--as resistive language. Having determined that the other variations spoken in their community--Standard Jamaican English and Jamaican Creole--were inadequate to express their dispossessed circumstances, the Rastafarians forged an identity through their language that represents a resistant philosophy, music and religion. This resistance not only articulates their socio-political state, but also commands global attention. This study scrutinizes the lexical, phonological, and syntactical structures of the poetic music discourse of Dread …
Political And Cultural Battles In A Postcolonial Picture Book From Wales, Petros Panaou
Political And Cultural Battles In A Postcolonial Picture Book From Wales, Petros Panaou
Petros Panaou
Nationalistic projects and bloody conflicts around the world testify to the nation's determination to fight the forces that threaten its sovereignty. The present discussion reads Cantre'r Gwaelod (1996) – a Welsh book from the European Picture Book Collection – as an attempt to defend the idea of national identity. The colonial and postcolonial cultural battles that have been taking place in Wales, and elsewhere, for the duration of centuries have not left children, or children's literature, unaffected. When the Welsh picture book is situated in its local environment, it becomes apparent that it advocates resistance to `foreign invasion'. The waves …
Colonialism And Language, Tony Crowley
Colonialism And Language, Tony Crowley
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
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