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In and Out of Suriname : Language, Mobility and Identity.
Title:
In and Out of Suriname : Language, Mobility and Identity.
Author:
Carlin, Eithne B.
ISBN:
9789004280120
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (304 pages)
Series:
Caribbean Series ; v.34

Caribbean Series
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 Looking at Language, Identity, and Mobility in Suriname -- Chapter 2 Language Practices and Linguistic Ideologies in Suriname: Results from a School Survey -- Chapter 3 Small-scale Gold Mining and Trans-frontier Commerce on the Lawa River -- Chapter 4 Movement through Time in the Southern Guianas: Deconstructing the Amerindian Kaleidoscope -- Chapter 5 Setting up Frontiers, Crossing the Border: The Making of the Kari'na Tyrewuju -- Chapter 6 Mobilities into (and out of) Konomerume (Donderskamp) -- Chapter 7 Maroons and the Communications Revolution in Suriname's Interior -- Chapter 8 On the Linguistic Consequences of Language Contact in Suriname: The Case of Convergence -- Chapter 9 They Might as Well Be Speaking Chinese: The Changing Chinese Linguistic Situation in Suriname under New Migration -- Chapter 10 The Role of Suriname in Haitian Migration to French Guiana: Identities on the Move and Border Crossings -- Chapter 11 Epilogue: The Aesthetics and Politics of Multilingualism among the Saamaka -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
This title will be available online in its entirety in Open AccessIn and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity offers a fresh multidisciplinary approach to multilingual Surinamese society, that breaks through the notion of bounded ethnicity enshrined in historical and ethnographic literature on Suriname.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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