Creole Noise

Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance

Bibliographic Data

ID19981107
AuthorsBelinda Edmondson (Professor of English and African American Studies, Rutgers University, USA, corresponding author)
Year2022
Publication date2022-01-20
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCreole Noise (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780192856838.001.0001
OpenAlexW4213350417
Open LibraryOL35584510M
ISBN9780192856838
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited44

Creole Noise constructs a literary history of Creole literature—also known as dialect literature, or literary dialect—and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean from the heyday of colonialism in the late-eighteenth century to the post-Emancipation period of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. It does so from an understanding that Creole is an essential feature of Caribbean cultural production. In emphasizing travel, the gendering of literary dialect, pro-slavery authors, and multi-racial authors, the book revises the common view that Creole literature was an insular local practice of the twentieth century Caribbean, or solely the product of modern, anti-colonial, black-affirming nationalist projects. Authors of early literary dialect include white creoles, blacks and browns. The book reconstructs an earlier proliferation of dialect literature in the preceding centuries, usually dismissed as merely racist mimicry of “black talk”, not understood as part of a continuum of artistic production in the Caribbean. The book argues that the Caribbean’s history of dialect literature is a factor in the literary histories of the United States and the wider trans-Atlantic

Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Creole language · Emancipation · English-based creole languages · History of literature · Linguistics · Literature · Modern language · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · Philosophy · Auteurs antillais · Auteurs noirs · Black authors · Caribbean Authors · Caribbean literature (English) · Creole literature · Dans la littérature · English literature · History and criticism · in literature · Littérature anglaise · Littérature antillaise (anglaise) · Race dans la littérature · Race in literature · West Indian literature (English)