Sing Without Shame: Oral traditions in Indo-Portuguese Creole verse
Kenneth David Jackson
[Creole Language Library, 5] 1990. xxiv, 257 pp.
Kenneth David Jackson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kenneth David Jackson plays a role.
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Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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1987 Cant a Sen Vargonya: Portuguese Creole Verse in Sri Lanka Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 2:1, pp. 31–48 | Article
This study analyzes the oral traditions of Sri Lanka Creole Portuguese as a syncretism of European, African, and Asian sources, evidenced in literary themes, linguistic practice, and cultural traditions. Resulting musical, dramatic, and textual practices play a central role in defining tradition… read more