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Caribbean Literary Discourse: Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean, by Barbara Lalla, Jean D’Costa & Velma Pollard

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  • Caribbean Literary Discourse: Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean.Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2014. i + 277 pp. (Cloth US$ 49.95). In their introduction to Caribbean Literary Discourse, Barbara Lalla, Jean D’Costa, and Velma Pollard point out that Caribbean linguistics has far paid limited attention to linguistics as a critical feature of Anglophone Caribbean literature. They attempt to redress the imbalance in this book, arguing that such a focus serves to enhance the discipline of Caribbean linguistics by expanding the study of “literary linguistics, stylistics, and narrative theory” (p. 2)

  • In the introduction they establish the stakes of the linguistic approach, highlighting the oral-scribal continuum as one of the identifying features of Anglophone Caribbean discourse

  • Each of the three is a trained linguist as well as a published writer of prose fiction. This fact is part of the analytical strength of Caribbean Literary Discourse because each one is able to demonstrate her practice of discourse analysis by drawing on disciplinary training in linguistics, and by examining the ways in which linguistic concerns influence her own creative writing

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Barbara Lalla, Jean D’Costa & Velma Pollard In their introduction to Caribbean Literary Discourse, Barbara Lalla, Jean D’Costa, and Velma Pollard point out that Caribbean linguistics has far paid limited attention to linguistics as a critical feature of Anglophone Caribbean literature.

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