Descriptions, Translations and the Caribbean

Descriptions, Translations and the Caribbean

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Masiola Rosanna
Springer, Berlin
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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.
EAN 9783319409368
ISBN 3319409360
Binding Hardback
Publisher Springer, Berlin
Publication date October 21, 2016
Pages 143
Language English
Dimensions 210 x 148
Country Switzerland
Readership General
Authors Masiola Rosanna; Tomei Renato
Illustrations XI, 143 p.
Edition 1st ed. 2016