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- Title
"ENGLISH" AS GUYANA'S MEDIUM OF EXPRESSION.
- Authors
SMITH, VICTORIA
- Abstract
The article discusses Guyanese authors' use of the colonial legacy of the English language to explore and express post-colonial Guyana. Topics include the debate surrounding the accuracy of English to convey the voice of post-colonial nations and peoples, the role English in bringing unification to native peoples and the global readership, and the clashing cultural and ideological influences with which the post-colonial Guyanese must cope.
- Subjects
GUYANESE authors; GUYANESE literature; LATIN American literature; INDIGENOUS peoples; GUYANESE fiction; GUYANESE poetry
- Publication
Journal of Caribbean Literatures, 2013, Vol 7, Issue 2, p99
- ISSN
1086-010X
- Publication type
Article