Entwisted Tongues.Comparative Creole Literatures.(Textxet. Studies in Comparative Literature. 23)
Publisher: Rodopi Bv Editions
Published: January 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9789042007376
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary Criticism; Pidgins & Creoles; Literature: Classics; Portugal; Spain; European - Spanish & Portuguese
First sentence: Few terms of putative scientific worth are as laden with extraneous exotic and erotic connotation as creóle, which derives from Portuguese criar, to bear and raise, and originally meant a European born in a tropical colony.1