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>Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:43:39 +0100
>From: "Sheller, Mimi" <m.sheller@LANCASTER.AC.UK>
>To: CARIBBEAN-STUDIES@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>
>I am looking for help in translating an academic abstract into
>Haitian Kreyol. It is for an article to be published in a journal
>called Language and Intercultural Communication, and they request
>abstracts to be printed in two languages. Due to the nature of the
>topic it would be ideal if my abstract (copied below) could be
>translated into Kreyol, which would recognise this as a 'legitimate'
>language of academic publication. If you can help me (this week
>ideally) then please contact me at m.sheller@lancaster.ac.uk as soon
>as possible (payment for translation services can be made if
>appropriate). Thank you.
>
>ABSTRACT
>The incorporation of 'creole' vernacular languages into texts
>written in 'standard' languages is an especially fraught crossroads
>of intercultural communication. This article considers the
>difference between a kind of literary tourism in which non-Caribbean
>readers 'taste' the flavour of creole language within Caribbean
>literature versus an 'oraliteracy' that would recognise the full
>autonomy and complexity of creole languages. Rather than reading
>textual linguistic hybridity as an unproblematic form of
>intercultural communication, it is suggested that metropolitan
>consumption of literary representations of creole vernaculars can
>serve to naturalize cultural boundaries and reinforce racist
>stereotypes -- especially in postcolonial situations.
>
> Mimi Sheller
>Dept. of Sociology
>Lancaster University
>Lancaster LA1 4YD
>U.K.
>
>m.sheller@lancaster.ac.uk

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