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From Creole to standard : Shakespeare, language, and literature in a postcolonial context /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mooneeram, Roshni
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Creole
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009.
Colección:Cross/cultures ; 107.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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: establishing the narrative voice
  • Conclusion: from Creole to standard via Shakespeare.