Decolonizing Creole: creative practices in Mauritian Creole

Many Caribbean and Indian Ocean islands have a common history of French and British colonization, where a Creole language developed from the contact of different colonial and African/ Indian languages. In the process, African languages died, making place for a language which retained close lexical l...

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Main Author: Gitanjali Pyndiah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Island Studies Journal 2016-11-01
Series:Island Studies Journal
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Online Access:http://www.islandstudies.ca/sites/islandstudies.ca/files/ISJ-11-2-MS349-GPyndiah.pdf