Decolonizing Creole on the Mauritius islands
Creative practices in Mauritian Creole
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12873459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gitanjali Pyndiah (University of Prince Edward Island, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 485-504 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Island Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1715-2593 • E-ISSN: 1715-2593 |
| Publisher | Island Studies Journal (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.24043/isj.363 |
| OpenAlex | W4210329684 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 17 |
Many Caribbean and Indian Ocean islands have a common history of French and British colonization, where a Creole language developed from the contact of different colonial and African/ Indian languages. In the process, African languages died, making place for a language which retained close lexical links to the colonizer’s tongue. This paper presents the case of Mauritian Creole, a language that emerged out of a colonial context and which is now the mother tongue of 70% of Mauritians, across different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. It pinpoints the residual colonial ideologies in the language and looks at some creative practices, focusing on its oral and scribal aspects, to formulate a ‘decolonial aesthetics’ (Mignolo, 2009). In stressing the séga angazé (protest songs) and poetry in Mauritian Creole in the history of resistance to colonization, it argues that the language is, potentially, a carrier of decolonial knowledges
Archaeology · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Creole language · Creolization · English-based creole languages · First language · Ideology · Language contact · Language education · Linguistics · Modern language · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Economic Zones and Regional Development · History · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |