Oraliteracy and Textual Opacity: Resisting Metropolitan Consumption of Caribbean Creole
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| Title: | Oraliteracy and Textual Opacity: Resisting Metropolitan Consumption of Caribbean Creole |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Sheller, Mimi |
| Source: | Language and Intercultural Communication. Feb 2004 4(1-2):100-108. |
| Availability: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 325 Chestnut Street Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Fax: 215-625-2940; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 9 |
| Publication Date: | 2004 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Descriptive |
| Descriptors: | Intercultural Communication, Creoles, Literature, Oral Language, Literacy, Ethnic Stereotypes, Translation, Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Nonstandard Dialects, Cultural Differences |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14708470408668866 |
| ISSN: | 1470-8477 |
| Abstract: | The incorporation of "creole" vernacular languages into texts written in "standard" languages is an especially fraught crossroads of intercultural communication. This article considers the difference between a kind of literary tourism in which non-Caribbean readers "taste" the flavour of creole language within Caribbean literature versus an "oraliteracy" that would recognise the full autonomy and complexity of creole languages. Rather than reading textual linguistic hybridity as an unproblematic form of intercultural communication, it is suggested that metropolitan consumption of literary representations of creole vernaculars can serve to naturalise cultural boundaries and reinforce racist stereotypes--especially in postcolonial situations. (Contains 4 notes.) |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Number of References: | 16 |
| Entry Date: | 2009 |
| Accession Number: | EJ824058 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | The incorporation of "creole" vernacular languages into texts written in "standard" languages is an especially fraught crossroads of intercultural communication. This article considers the difference between a kind of literary tourism in which non-Caribbean readers "taste" the flavour of creole language within Caribbean literature versus an "oraliteracy" that would recognise the full autonomy and complexity of creole languages. Rather than reading textual linguistic hybridity as an unproblematic form of intercultural communication, it is suggested that metropolitan consumption of literary representations of creole vernaculars can serve to naturalise cultural boundaries and reinforce racist stereotypes--especially in postcolonial situations. (Contains 4 notes.) |
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| ISSN: | 1470-8477 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14708470408668866 |
