The man-of-words in the West Indies : performance and the emergence of Creole culture / Roger D. Abrahams.
Series: Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture | Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and cultureBaltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1983] 1983Description: xxxi, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0801828384
- 9780801828386
- 0801828392
- 9780801828393
- Storytellers -- West Indies
- Storytelling -- West Indies
- Folklore -- Performance -- West Indies
- Communication in folklore -- West Indies
- Blacks -- West Indies -- Folklore
- Sociolinguistics -- West Indies
- Oral tradition -- West Indies
- Blacks
- Communication in folklore
- Folklore -- Performance
- Oral tradition
- Sociolinguistics
- Storytellers
- Storytelling
- West Indies
- Folklore -- Antilles
- Tradition orale -- Antilles
- Conteurs -- Antilles
- Ethnolinguistique -- Antilles
- Anthropologie -- Antilles anglophones
- Langues cr eoles anglaises -- Antilles anglophones
- M undliche Erz ahlung
- Gespr ach
- M undliche Uberlieferung
- Literatur
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Volksliteratur
- Volkskunde
- Epik
- Westindien
- Schwarze
- Schwarze
- West Indian folklore Role of story-telling
- 398/.092/2 19
- GR120 .A27 1983
- HQ 7060
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index.
Patterns of performance in the West Indies -- Traditions of eloquence in Afro-American communities -- After the myth: studying Afro-American cultural patterns in the plantation literature -- Joking: the training of the man-of-words in talking broad -- A performance-centered approach to gossip -- Sense and nonsense on St. Vincent: speech behavior and decorum in a Caribbean community -- Christmas and carnival on St. Vincent -- Training of the man-of-words in talking sweet -- Folklore and communication on St. Vincent -- Symbolic landscapes and expressive events -- Storytelling events: the structure of nonsense on St. Vincent.
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