Description
This innovative book contributes to a paradigm shift in the study of creole languages, forging new empirical frameworks for understanding language and culture in sociohistorical contact. The authors bring together archival sources to challenge dominant linguistic theory and practice and engage issues of power, positioning marginalized indigenous peoples as the center of, and vital agents in, these languages’ formation and development. Students in language contact, pidgins and creoles, Caribbean studies, and postcolonial studies courses—and scholars across many disciplines—will benefit from this book and be convinced of the importance of understanding creoles and creolization.
Table of Contents
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Post-colonial Linguistics and Post-creole Creolistics
Nicholas G. Faraclas and Sally J. Delgado
Chapter 2: A Subaltern Overview of Early Colonial Contact in the Afro-Atlantic: Renegades, Maroons and the Sugar Story
Nicholas G. Faraclas
Chapter 3: Sociohistorical Matrices for the Emergence of Afro-Atlantic ‘Creoles’ and other pre-1800 Colonial Era Contact Repertoires and Varieties
Nicholas G. Faraclas and Sally J. Delgado
Chapter 4: Renegades, Raiders, Loggers and Traders in the Early Colonial Contact Zones of the Western Caribbean
Sally J. Delgado
Chapter 5: ‘Arawak’, ‘Carib’ and ‘Garifuna’: Indigenous Trans-/Pluri-linguality versus Imperial Myth-making in the Afro-Atlantic
Fernando Y. Alvarado Benítez and Nicholas G. Faraclas
Chapter 6: Jamaican Maroon Spirit Language, Krio and Cryptolect
Ian Hancock
Chapter 7: Conceptual Construal, Convergence and the Creole Lexicon
Micah Corum
