In search of a national identity
Subtitle: Creole and politics in Guadeloupe
By: Ellen M. Schnepel.
Series: Kreolische Bibliothek -- Bd. 19.
Publisher: Helmut Buske
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Hamburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Creole dialects, French -- Political aspects -- Guadeloupe.; Guadeloupe -- Languages -- Political aspects.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-294).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Political assimilation and identity : a paradox in the French Antilles; title: Language and nationalism: the approach; title: The island context; title: Creole in Guadeloupe; title: The Creole movement: an ideology of language is infused in the nationalist movement; title: Conflict in the Capesterre School; title: Creole turf wars and the media; title: Party politics and the language issue; title: In the guise of a conclusion: nationalism and identity politics; title: Sòti an sann tonbé an difé: reconciling Guadeloupean difference with modernity.