musical styles and traditions from islands that are located in the Caribbean Sea and it represents something that is simple‚ exotic yet rich and wonderful. The styles range anywhere from traditional folk genres such as the Puerto Rican aguinaldo and Jamaican mento to more contemporary music such as salsa and reggae. They are each syntheses of African‚ European‚ Indian and Indigenious influences‚ largely created by African slave descendants‚ along with contribution from other communities. Some of the
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Rastafarians in Post-Independence Caribbean Poetry in English (the 1960s and the 1970s): from Pariahs to Cultural Creators Eric DOUMERC‚ Maître de conférences - Université Toulouse 2 – Le Mirail erdoum@aol.com L’objectif de cet article est d’examiner plusieurs modes de représentation des Rastafariens dans la poésie antillaise anglophone des années 1960 et 1970. Après s’être attardé sur le contexte historique et culturel‚ il sera question de trois tendances générales dans la représentation des
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Cultural Identity and Diaspora STUART HALL A new cinema of the Caribbean is emerging‚ joining the company of the other ’Third Cinemas’. It is related to‚ but different from the vibrant film and other forms of visual representation of the Afro-Caribbean (and Asian) ’blacks’ of the diasporas of the West the new post-colonial subjects. All these cultural practices and forms of representation have the black subject at their centre‚ putting the issue of cultural identity in question. Who is this emergent
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By 1872 the capital was transferred from Spanish Town to Kingston. There was an improvement in the water supply and a number of schools were established. There was a shift from sugar to banana production. The Great War (1914 - 1918) gave many Jamaicans the opportunity to travel which in turn helped to shape their views of the system of Government. In addition‚ during the early
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An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Janet Holmes) Chapter One: What do sociolinguists study? - Sociolinguistics: a term that refers to the study of the relationship between language and society‚ and how language is used in multilingual speech communities. Q what aspects of language are Sociolinguists interested in? Sociolinguists are interested in explaining why people speak differently in different social contexts. And the effect of social factors such as (social distance‚ social status
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Билет 7 Basic variants‚ dialects and vernacular of English Dialects are linguistic varieties which differ in pronunciation‚ vocabulary and grammar from each other and from Standard English (which is itself a dialect). Dialects can be usefully defined as "sub-forms of languages which are‚ in general‚ mutually comprehensible".[1] British linguists distinguish dialect from accent‚ which refers only to pronunciation. Thus‚ any educated English speaker can use the vocabulary and grammar of Standard
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they are fading. There are only a small amount of regional areas in Britain that now have closed networks therefore still have a strong accent. There is also the influence of immigrants on communities‚ which have settled in parts of Britain. The Jamaican and African accent
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Critical approaches to Wide Sargasso Sea » Contemporary critical assessments Modernist approachesFeminist approachesPsychoanalytical criticismPost-colonial approachesChallenging European cultural supremacyA revised perspectivePost-colonial approaches and ChristophineHistoricist approaches Modernist approaches These tend to avoid racial and political commentary on the novel. They focus instead on such aspects of form as: Jean Rhys’ pared down style Her interest in representing the inner
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In Graham Robb’s Discovery of France‚ Robb chronicles the social‚ geographical‚ and economic changes in France from the pre-revolutionary period until the first World War. Prior to new governmental policy and dramatic physical changes to the landscape‚ France was far from the unified nation state that is recognizable today. Much of the nation had yet to be discovered‚ nor had it been sufficiently recorded by a cartographer. The rich diversity of culture and language accounted by Robb attempts to
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My family doesn’t fit in here; My mother‚ my brother pierre‚ and I are constantly in solitude. My father‚ Alexander Cosway‚ is no longer with us. Even though we are white‚ the Jamaican ladies still do not approve. They feel that my mother was and is too young and beautiful for my father when they married. This is coupled with the fact that my mother is from Martinique‚ a French colony: Jamaica is an English colony. We don’t get many visitors at Coulibri Estate‚ our home‚ since my father passed away
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