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Model: RB0058
ISBN: 9789768189066
Authors: ALLSOPP, RICHARD
Publishers: ARAWAK PUBLICATIONS
Price: $5,500.00JMD
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This product was added to our catalog on Monday 12 September, 2011.
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This book brings together a selection of about 1300 Anglophone Creole proverbs preserved as the guidance-lore of the millions of enslaved forebears of today's Caribbean Afric peoples - the author s preferred term for all international peoples of the African diaspora. Their ways of thought and expression, characterized by the common orality and life-ways of the sub-Saharan cultures from which they had been uprooted, surfaced in parallel imagery in the similarly structured Creoles which, across the region, they had invented out of the conceptual rootstock of original African languages. That imagery flourishes in their proverbs. A proverb is described "as a gem of utterance sparkling with a message that the hearer would like to remember, and therefore probably retains, in that form", and this collection seeks first respectfully to recognize wisdom in the powerful simplicity of the proverbs in their Creole form. Each is then followed by a restatement in Standard English for clarification or pedagogical use, a rendering in rhymed verse for the reader 's entertainment,and further explanatory notes - the whole making an enlightening, perhaps new road in the literature of orality. Many popular collections of Caribbean territorial proverbs exist and continue to be produced, but this collection, apart from its greater coverage is likely to be the first scholarly cross-referencing of the entire Anglophone field of Caribbean proverbs in some 22 territories from Guyana to the Bahamas and Belize.