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Descriptions, Translations and the Caribbean: From Fruits to Rastafarians

Descriptions, Translations and the Caribbean: From Fruits to Rastafarians

Tomei, Renato
Masiola, Rosanna

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Indigenous Languages of the AmericasLinguisticsWriting Instruction

ISBN10: 3319822225
ISBN13: 9783319822228
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jun 23 2018
Pages: 143
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book offers a new perspective on the role played by colonial descriptions and translation of Caribbean plants in representations of Caribbean culture. Through thorough examination of Caribbean phytonyms in lexicography, colonization, history, songs and translation studies, the authors argue that the Westernisation of vernacular phytonyms, while systematizing the nomenclature, blurred and erased the cultural tradition of Caribbean plants and medicinal herbs. Means of transmission and preservation of this oral culture was in the plantation songs and herb vendor songs. Musical creativity is a powerful form of resistance, as in the case of Reggae music and the rise of Rastafarians, and Bob Marley's 'untranslatable' lyrics. This book will be of interest to scholars of Caribbean studies and to linguists interested in pushing the current Eurocentric boundaries of translation studies.

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