E in the Caribbean have a similar kind of plurality [to that of South Africa]: we have english, which is the imposed language on much of the archipelago. We also have what we call nation language, which is a mixture of English and an adaptation that English took in the new environment of the Caribbean. There are also remnants of ancestral languages still persisting in the Caribbean, spoken SOme of the more traditional languages.
E in the Caribbean have a similar kind of plurality [to that of South Africa]: we have english, which is the imposed language on much of the archipelago. We also have what we call nation language, which is a mixture of English and an adaptation that English took in the new environment of the Caribbean. There are also remnants of ancestral languages still persisting in the Caribbean, spoken SOme of the more traditional languages.
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E in the Caribbean have a similar kind of plurality [to that of South Africa]: we have english, which is the imposed language on much of the archipelago. We also have what we call nation language, which is a mixture of English and an adaptation that English took in the new environment of the Caribbean. There are also remnants of ancestral languages still persisting in the Caribbean, spoken SOme of the more traditional languages.
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATION LANGUAGE
IN ANGLOPHONE CARIBBEAN POETRY
(1984)
BARBADIAN POET Kamau Brathwaite (see biography in Section
One) delivered this lecture at a 1979 Sacer a
“ on.” Elaborating on a presentation by the
Grave a parallel between South a's “pr fl a
that of the Caribbean. Brathwaite’s primary foes hovgh,
what he calls “nation language,” an undergroun ngage
developed over time by slaves, calypsonians, sompelen, ani
poets. Using examples from contemporary West In ln poet
he carefully outlines and illustrates its main a onl
iy, dacgic meter (a8 opposed to pentameter; an hens
cence participation. Central to Brathwaite’s lecture is, ies
ctween “the imported alien experience of the sm and
“he a a 3 ™, but the language of slaves and labourers,
“the power of the hurricane.
that of South Africa): we have English, which is the
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