Barbara Lalla is an emerita professor of language
and literature in the Department of Liberal Arts at the University
of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. She has
written two novels as well as Postcolonialisms: Caribbean Rereading
of Medieval English Discourse and Defining Jamaican Fiction:
Marronage and the Discourse of Survival.
Jean D’Costa, Leavenworth Professor Emerita of
Literature at Hamilton College, USA, is a critic and children’s
novelist. Lalla and D’Costa coauthored Language in Exile: Three
Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole.
Velma Pollard is a retired senior lecturer in
language education at the University of the West Indies at Mona,
Jamaica. She is an authority on Rastafarian language and the author
of a novel, two collections of short fiction, and five books of
poetry. Her novella Karl won the Casa de las Americas Literary
Prize in 1992.
"This excellent collection marries the analytic skills of three
linguists with their competencies in literary criticism and makes a
much-needed contribution to uncovering the extraordinary wealth of
Caribbean literary discourse. The writers' sensitivity to the topic
of discourse and orthographic choice gains insight from the
creative authorial experience of the three scholars."
--Maureen Warner-Lewis, author of Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother
Tongue to Memory
"This volume is both timely and marketable. Particular strengths
include the historical/developmental focus, the analysis of
language in literature, the combination of a wide overview of
issues like orality and literacy, and changing attitudes towards
the use of Creole in writing."
--Susanne Mühleisen, author of Creole Discourse: Exploring Prestige
Formation and Change across Caribbean English-Lexicon Creoles
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