Sing Without Shame: Oral traditions in Indo-Portuguese Creole verse (Creole Language Library) - Hardcover

Jackson, Kenneth David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556190816 ISBN 13: 9781556190810

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1990

Synopsis

This study of literary themes, linguistic practice and cultural traditions analyzes the oral traditions of Indo-Portugese creole verse, as a synthesis from European, African and Asian sources. This musical, dramatic and textual syncretism defines tradition within the group and maintains the identity of the creole community. References are primarily to Indian and Sri Lankan materials collected in the late nineteenth century and to data in the H. Nevill collection, an extensive manuscript of Sri Lankan Creole texts from the 1870s or 1880s, housed in the British Museum. The importance of these texts is linguistic, anthropological and sociological. They are persistent in their ability to give definition to creole culture, surviving in South Asia from the seventeenth century to the present.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1556190816
• ISBN 13: 9781556190810
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 297