From Creole to Standard: Shakespeare, Language, and Literature in a Postcolonial Context
Author:   Roshni Mooneeram
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   107
ISBN:  

9789042026230


Pages:   239
Publication Date:   01 January 2009
Format:   Hardback
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From Creole to Standard: Shakespeare, Language, and Literature in a Postcolonial Context


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Author:   Roshni Mooneeram
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Editions Rodopi B.V.
Volume:   107
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.547kg
ISBN:  

9789042026230


ISBN 10:   9042026235
Pages:   239
Publication Date:   01 January 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Postcolonial Creolistics, an Interdisciplinary Approach to Mauritian Creole The Sociolinguistic and Literary Contexts The Theatre of Protest: Overturning the Linguistic Superstructure Virahsawmy’s Later Plays: Metalinguistic and Feminist Discourses Iconoclastic Translation: Rewriting Shakespeare’s The Tempest in a Postcolonial Context Identity-Forming Translations: Hamlet and Much Ado about Nothing The Novel: Establishing the Narrative Voice Conclusion: From Creole to Standard via Shakespeare Works Cited

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Roshni Mooneeram completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Leeds. After lecturing there and at Birmingham City University, she joined the China campus of the University of Nottingham, where she is currently based, as Acting Head of the Division of English Studies and Director of a research centre in Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. This book brings together her main research areas: literary linguistics, postcolonial studies, and Shakespeare studies.

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