Ocean of Letters Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora

Name: Ocean of Letters Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora
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ISBN: 9780521739573

ISBN-10: 0521739578

ISBN-13: 9780521739573

Edition: 2009

Authors: Pier M. Larson

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Book details

List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/14/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 398
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English



List of figures


List of maps, tables and graphs


Archives abbreviations


Textual notes and acknowledgements



Departures


Language and creolization


Empire, literacy, time


The Malagasy, their tongue, and their enslavement


Islam and literacy



Conversation and the catechism


A mobile language


Exchanges and impressions


Diviners' repertories


Interplay of tongue and manuscript


Conversation and the catechism



The work of the Word


Lazarists and the vernacular


A lexicon for merchant and planter


Slavery and the short catechism


The lessons and tensions of colonial linguistics



The colonial study


Origins of a colonial-creole intellectual


Lexicographer and encyclopedist


An empire of Protestant letters


Divergent methods of cleric and savant



The multilingual street


Prison and mountain


The vernacular life of the street


Crï¿½olitï¿½ as agility


Listening through the census



Renaissance: Reading and affiliation


Emancipation and evangelicals


Governors and unknown tongues


Forming Malagasy villages


Multilingual evangelism


Reading the vernacular word


Names and identities



Ocean of letters


Epistolary conversation


Couriers and passwords


Commodities, news, and patriots


Imagining the nation at Mauritius


Figments of nation: the Comores


Arrested cosmopolitans



Pathways of language and crï¿½olitï¿½


Index