Multimodality in Canadian black feminist writing : : orality and the body in the work of Harris, Philip, Allen, and Brand / / Maria Caridad Casas.
This book develops a theory of multimodality – the participation of a text in more than one mode – centred on the poetry/poetics of Lillian Allen, Claire Harris, Dionne Brand, and Marlene Nourbese Philip. How do these poets represent oral Caribbean English Creoles (CECs) in writing and negotiate the...
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Superior document: | Cross cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; 112 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2009. |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cross/Cultures
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxiv, 213 pages) :; illustrations. |
Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Writing Creole in the Caribbean Diaspora
- Four Canadian Writers and Their Works
- Orality, Literacy, and the Derridean Sign
- Spelling Choices and Linguistic Mistakes
- A Sign Theory
- Code-Switching, Projection, and Mode
- Mode and Non-Standard Spellings
- Embodied Signs of Identity
- Concluding Thoughts
- Works Cited.