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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 |
| Authors: | Sheller, Mimi |
| Keywords: | Creole
translation
Caribbean literature
literacy
postcoloniality |
| Issue Date: | 2004 |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Citation: | Sheller, M. ‘Oraliteracy and Textual Opacity: Resisting Metropolitan Consumption of Caribbean Creole’. Language and Intercultural Communication, 4: 1-2 (2004): 100-108 |
| Abstract: | The incorporation of 'creole' vemacular 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 naturalize
cultural boundaries and reinforce racist stereotypes - especially in postcolonial
situations. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1860/3549 |
| Appears in Collections: | Talks and publications of Mimi Sheller
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