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 coursesand scholars across many disciplineswill benefit from this book and be convinced of the importance of understanding creoles and creolization.
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 Benķtez 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
Nicholas G. Faraclas is a Professor in Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico, Rķo Piedras.
Sally J. Delgado is a certified teacher and Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus.
