Roshni Mooneeram
Biographic Data
| ID | 5448171 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roshni Mooneeram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roshni |
| FAMILY NAME | Mooneeram |
| SIGNATURE | MOONEERAM R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Central England, Birmingham, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Literary translation as a tool for critical language planning
This paper argues that Dev Virahsawmy, an author who manipulates literary translation for the purposes of linguistic prestige formation and re‐negotiation, is a critical language‐policy practitioner, as his work fills an important gap in language planning scholarship. A micro‐analysis of the translation of a Shakespearean sonnet into Mauritian Creole is carried out with a view to exploring the dynamic interconnections between the macro‐(social) l…
From Creole to Standard
This book gives a fascinating account of the unique history of the national – creole – language of Mauritius and the process of standardization that it is undergoing in postcolonial times. The central question is how far a creative writer's activity may affect the status and linguistic forms of a regional language. The book focuses on the work of the author Dev Virahsawmy, who, particularly through his Shakespeare translations, is an active agent…
From Creole to Standard
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Postcolonial Creolistics, an Interdisciplinary Approach to Mauritian Creole The Sociolinguistic and Literary Contexts The Theatre of Protest: Overturning the Linguistic Superstructure Virahsawmy's Later Plays: Metalinguistic and Feminist Discourses Iconoclastic Translation: Rewriting Shakespeare's The Tempest in a Postcolonial Context Identity-Forming Translations: Hamlet and Much Ado about Nothing The Novel…
Shakespeare’s Postcolonial Journey
Sidney Shep’s call for an approach to book history which challenges the homology between the cultural and the national is certainly a good point of departure in considering Shakespeare’s postcolonial journey to Mauritius. The travel of the Shakespearean canon, the very backbone of the English history of the book, to an Indian Ocean island with a complicated colonial history, and whose native bird, now famously extinct as a result of colonial tran…
Language Politics in Dev Virahsawmy's Toufann , a Postcolonial Rewriting of The Tempest
This article is located at the crossroads between language and literature which postcolonial studies is beginning to confront. I explore language politics in a postcolonial context through an analysis of codeswitching in Dev Virahsawmy's Toufann (1991), a rewriting of Shakespeare's The Tempest in Mauritian Creole. I argue that in Virahsawmy's play the prominent juxtaposition of different languages, over and above different registers, fulfils impo…
Shakespeare and Africa
Shakespeare's work reached Africa no later than it reached the most distant parts of his own country. In 1607 there are reports of performances of Hamlet and Richard II by British sailors off the coast of Sierra Leone. This hardly raised the floodgates of performance, but in 1800 the African Theatre – an amateur theatre set up in Cape Town, South Africa, by the soldiers of the British garrison – opened with a performance of I Henry IV , and since…
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Shakespeare and Africa
Shakespeare's work reached Africa no later than it reached the most distant parts of his own country. In 1607 there are reports of performances of Hamlet and Richard II by British sailors off the coast of Sierra Leone. This hardly raised the floodgates of performance, but in 1800 the African Theatre – an amateur theatre set up in Cape Town, South Africa, by the soldiers of the British garrison – opened with a performance of I Henry IV , and since…
Language Politics in Dev Virahsawmy's Toufann , a Postcolonial Rewriting of The Tempest
This article is located at the crossroads between language and literature which postcolonial studies is beginning to confront. I explore language politics in a postcolonial context through an analysis of codeswitching in Dev Virahsawmy's Toufann (1991), a rewriting of Shakespeare's The Tempest in Mauritian Creole. I argue that in Virahsawmy's play the prominent juxtaposition of different languages, over and above different registers, fulfils impo…
Shakespeare’s Postcolonial Journey
Sidney Shep’s call for an approach to book history which challenges the homology between the cultural and the national is certainly a good point of departure in considering Shakespeare’s postcolonial journey to Mauritius. The travel of the Shakespearean canon, the very backbone of the English history of the book, to an Indian Ocean island with a complicated colonial history, and whose native bird, now famously extinct as a result of colonial tran…
From Creole to Standard
This book gives a fascinating account of the unique history of the national – creole – language of Mauritius and the process of standardization that it is undergoing in postcolonial times. The central question is how far a creative writer's activity may affect the status and linguistic forms of a regional language. The book focuses on the work of the author Dev Virahsawmy, who, particularly through his Shakespeare translations, is an active agent…
From Creole to Standard
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Postcolonial Creolistics, an Interdisciplinary Approach to Mauritian Creole The Sociolinguistic and Literary Contexts The Theatre of Protest: Overturning the Linguistic Superstructure Virahsawmy's Later Plays: Metalinguistic and Feminist Discourses Iconoclastic Translation: Rewriting Shakespeare's The Tempest in a Postcolonial Context Identity-Forming Translations: Hamlet and Much Ado about Nothing The Novel…
Literary translation as a tool for critical language planning
This paper argues that Dev Virahsawmy, an author who manipulates literary translation for the purposes of linguistic prestige formation and re‐negotiation, is a critical language‐policy practitioner, as his work fills an important gap in language planning scholarship. A micro‐analysis of the translation of a Shakespearean sonnet into Mauritian Creole is carried out with a view to exploring the dynamic interconnections between the macro‐(social) l…
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Creole language (3 works)