Language as a Mirror of Cultural Syncretism and Hybridity

KLÍMOVÁ, Zuzana. Language as a Mirror of Cultural Syncretism and Hybridity. In An International Symposium for Doctoral Students - "A Culture of Language", Brno, 18-19 October 2012. 2012.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Language as a Mirror of Cultural Syncretism and Hybridity

Autoři

KLÍMOVÁ, Zuzana (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

An International Symposium for Doctoral Students - "A Culture of Language", Brno, 18-19 October 2012, 2012

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/12:00061448

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

language; postcolonial literature; Caribbean literature; dialect

Štítky

rivok

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Anotace

V originále

West Indian author Samuel Selvon employs various literary and linguistic devices in order to find adequate means reflecting his position of the author caught between two cultural traditions. Selvon has to deal with differences of narrative traditions and power relations of the various languages/cultures participating in postcolonial discourse. The technique Selvon uses is a kind of manifestation of cultural evolution, and represents one of the possible reactions to socio-political issues related to the global change. Selvon's particular literary language presents us with a concord of calypsonian elements with the wide continuum of creolized English creating the atmosphere of a new postcolonial community.