Les récits de Teixeira de Sousa (1919-2006) s’inscrivent dans une historicité envisagée en fonction des caractéristiques de Claridade et Certeza, deux mouvements représentatifs du réalisme capverdien qui prônaient l’affirmation de l’identité nationale et la (re)découverte de la réalité capverdienne. L’on doit ajouter encore le legs des positions esthétiques d’essence idéologique et politique du néoréalisme portugais. L’analyse textuelle, fondée sur des récits brefs et deux trilogies romanesques, objet de cette thèse, interroge la portée des figurations réalistes dans la représentation de phénomènes sociohistoriques et culturels et leur interaction avec deux microcosmes insulaires distincts, pris à des époques coloniales et postcoloniales différentes : d’abord l’univers de la trilogie sur l’île de Fogo, illustré par la désagrégation de la classe dominante, les déséquilibres sociaux, les courants migratoires et les traits identitaires. Ensuite, la représentation du contexte urbain de l’île de São Vicente, articulée aux réalités portuaire et maritime, à la diversité ethnique et culturelle, à l’émergence de la souveraineté nationale, à la création littéraire, et globalement à l’essence humaine. Cette étude se penche aussi sur le plan de l’énonciation réaliste et néoréaliste, d’où ressortent, d’une part, quelques particularités des modalités discursives récurrentes chez l’auteur, d’autre part, le recours à différents registres de langage, nuancés par des tonalités diversifiées. / The narratives by Teixeira de Sousa (1919-2006) are part of the Claridade and Certeza movements, particularly in what concerns their proposed reading of historicity. These two movements clearly exemplify Realism in Cape Verde, and they voice national identity and the (re) discovery of Cape Verdean reality. One should note as well the presence of an aesthetics affiliated to the political and ideological positions of Portuguese Neo-realism. The focus of this dissertation is the analysis of Teixeira de Sousa’s narratives (short stories and two trilogies of novels). We elaborate on the extension of the above-referred topics for the representation of socio-historical and cultural phenomena as well as on their interaction with two insular microcosms in different colonial and postcolonial periods. In the first trilogy we refer to the universe of Fogo island; the decadence of the ruling class, the social differences, migration, identity. In the second case, we discuss the urban reality of the island of S. Vicente, framed by the sea, the docks, and the ethnic and cultural diversity. We also consider the emergence of national sovereignty, literary creation, and human essence in general in these writings. This dissertation deals as well with the discussion of realist and neorealist enunciation, through the author’s particular style.

Most contemporary scholarship on Mexican history separates the years 1808-1824 into two distinct processes; Mexican independence and the formation of a new Mexican state. This thesis provides a new synthesis of the two processes of independence and state formation in Mexico. Covering events chronologically from 1808-1824, this thesis argues that the formation of a federal republic in Mexico was no accident, but that it was inevitable. The incessant conflict between insurgent and royalist factions decentralized politics in New Spain from 1810-1820 and weakened the authority of the government in Mexico City. This decentralized arena allowed many political actors of all castes, individuals and groups, to claim political authority on a local level. The only way for Mexico City to forge a new nation after 1820 was to recognize these newly established provincial interests. This thesis uses the failed attempt by Agustin de Iturbide to centralize government following independence as further corroboration that Mexico's War for Independence had established permanent federalist impulses within the country, which would eventually culminate in the creation of a federal republic in 1824.

<p>In this study, titled Learning in a language that isn't one's own - the case of Jamaica, our intention is to give a picture of what the language situation in Jamaica is like. English is the official language in Jamaica, but it is coexisting with Jamacian Creole, which is not admitted as a official language, but it is the language of the people. In this study we try to point out possible factors that have created the language situation of Jamaica. We have mostly focused on the situation at school, all teaching is supposed to be in English. We have observed attitudes among pupils and teachers to English and Jamaican Creole. We will also give general explanations of the terms Pidgin and Creole and we will give a brief history background of Jamaica.</p>

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 324-349).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 188-192).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 188-192).

This dissertation investigates the interrelationship of language and music in the complex cultural domain of Cape Verde and the Cape Verdean diaspora in West Africa, Europe, and North America. I illustrate how derogatory tropes of degeneracy, inferiority, and impurity applied to Creole languages and cultures (Creole exceptionalism) have prevented language parity between Portuguese, Cape Verde’s official colonial language, and Cape Verdean Creole (CVC), the vernacular of the country’s entire population. These tropes and their sociological implications are, ultimately, detrimental to efforts toward development in the country. I show that music, a safe and welcoming space for CVC, plays an integral role in preserving and promoting the language. The results of centuries-old exceptionalist beliefs include the historical association of women as closer to nature than to culture in the Cape Verdean context and the perception of CVC language and culture as similarly subaltern as compared to their European counterparts. While men have traditionally been the revered songwriters and cultural intellectuals in Cape Verde, on world music stages Cape Verdean women have had the lion’s share of success. I argue that this gender role reversal is largely due to the unique career of Cesária Évora. Drawing on discourse-centered analysis, I chart the elements of race, gender, and social class indexed by song texts into the sociopolitical world of which they are a part and analyze the fruitful interventions and subversions made by Cape Verdean women performers in discussions of womanhood, “Africanness,” and “Creoleness.” This study contributes to numerous ongoing scholarly debates in African diaspora studies and Creole studies, especially regarding the politics of representation, and offers one of the few existing comprehensive historical and ethnographic studies of language in music and of a Creole language specifically. Inherently political, the research for this dissertation has been accompanied by a decade-long project of social engagement advocating for the linguistic human rights of CVC speakers. / African and African American Studies

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The novel shows how a young Indo-Guyanese immigrant to the UK is racialized; aspiring to leave behind the "messiness" and confusion of the poverty-stricken immigrant lives he sees around him, he goes to Cambridge. The story is narrated by this character long after, in ways that reveal how this aspiration was assimilative and colonizing, encouraging him to abandon his friends and his roots. His life story makes it clear how different systems of racial categorization work in Guyana and in the UK to violently separate those who might be friends, lovers, and allies.

Photocopy of typescript. / Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1978. / Bibliography: leaves 186-188. / Microfiche. / xii, 188 leaves ill. 28 cm