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Smith, Faith, 1964-

Creole recitations : John Jacob Thomas and colonial formation in the late nineteenth-century Caribbean / Faith Smith. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2002. - xxvi, 207 pages ; 24 cm. - New world studies . - New World studies. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-204) and index.

"Writing Was Easy to Him": Education, Labor, Distinction -- "Her Majesty's Ethiopic Subjects": London, Englishness, Pan-Africanism -- Can Anything Good Come out of Cedros?: Creole Grammar, Theory and Practice -- West Indian Fables Explained: Travel and Translation in the 1880s. 1. 2. 3. 4.

ISBN: 0813921422 9780813921426 0813921430 9780813921433

LCCN: 2002006741

Nat. Bib. No.: bA375505 GBA375505 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 012667654 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Thomas, J. J.
Thomas, J. J.
Thomas, John Jacob.
Thomas, John J.
Thomas, John Jacob, 1841-1889.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Scholars--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad--Biography.
Creole dialects--Caribbean Area.
Blacks--Race identity--Caribbean Area.
Black nationalism--Caribbean Area.
Black nationalism.
Blacks--Race identity.
Creole dialects.
Scholars.
Savants--R ecits personnels.--Trinit e-et-Tobago
Langues cr eoles--R egion cara ibe.
Noirs--Identit e collective--R egion cara ibe.
Nationalisme noir--R egion cara ibe.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Trinidad--Biography.
Caribbean Area.
Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad.
Trinit e et Tobago--Biographie.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biographies.

LC Class. No.: CT388.T48 / S55 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 972.983/03/092 B