Description
Book SynopsisThis unique collection, The Transatlantic Culture Trade: Caribbean Creole Proverbs from Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean, celebrates indigenous Caribbean Creole languages and one of their associated cultural vectors, Creole proverbs. It is particularly timely as 2019 has been designated by the United Nations as the Year of Indigenous Languages, and falls within the United Nations Decade for People of African Descent which began in 2015 and will end in 2024. The 222 French-lexified and English-lexified Creole proverbs from the Caribbean, with corresponding phonetic transcriptions (IPA), is accessible to an international audience. As the homogenizing effects of globalization threaten the preservation of indigenous cultures of small nation states such as those in the Caribbean, this collection of proverbs counterbalances cultural erosion, and thereby safeguards the region's cultural heritage for future generations. Elements of intangible cultural heritage, Caribbean Creole prov
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations – Preface – Acknowledgments – List of Abbreviations – Part One Introduction –Beyond and Besides Reparations – The Caribbean to the World – One Caribbean or The Caribbeans: A Translator’s Musing – On Caribbean Languages – The Transatlantic Culture Trade – Proverbs, Proverbiality, and Proverb Studies – On Caribbean Creole Proverbs – Translating Proverbs – Writing in Creole – Translating Creole and Creolization – On Creole Intracultural Translation – Pan-Creole Worldview and Creole Intracultural Translation – Conclusion – References – Part Two 222 Creole Proverbs from the Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean, with IPA – Typology of Data Presentation in Proverb Collections – The Corpus – About the Creole Orthographies in this Collection – Before and Beyond The Transatlantic Culture Trade: Caribbean Creole Proverbs from Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean – References – Index.
