...Vijaya Teelock © 1999: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1999 The Influence of Slavery in the Formation of Creole Identity Vijaya Teelock I would like first of all to situate Mauritius in the has African...

... of apprenticeship to the present, journal reflect important aspects of current research Creoles have existed at the edges of the economy of on the peoples and societies of the Indian Ocean.’ Mauritius and they have suffered the consequences They also share a number of common threads and thereof in many...

... it was cans like the Sierra Leone Creoles remained as announced in the press, as legally required, it a badge of difference. was immediately appealed by Rudolf Goetze, se- Thus it becomes clear that while...

.... Slama, “Indonesian Hadhramis,” 110. polities, on the one hand, and diasporic Had- emerged under the rule of European mercan- 298 hramis and Buginese, on the other, bred mu- tile concerns. Creoles are constituted by a syn- tual familiarity, which...

..., and Re- 4. Although départementalisation juridically began turn of the Outcast in Au visiteur lumineux: Des îles in 1946, Yerro identifies 1964 as signaling the onset créoles aux sociétés plurielles (To the Enlightened Visi...

..., and the "nigger-yard" known during and after Indians formed the majority of indentured slavery. There was the "creole gang" that laborers brought into the Caribbean follo- all children of plantation laborers -- wing the Emancipation of the slaves. Africans...

... is tably in Burma, Fiji, Kenya, Uganda and Malaya); in identified with. the Caribbean, there are conflicts with Black Creoles About 15 percent of the early emigrants from descended from slaves, as in Trinidad, Mauritius and South Asia were Muslims. In some cases...

... in the northwest Indian very precisely applied to peoples from the area around Ocean with a very abbreviated discussion of the re- Maputo. He also observed that the local Indians quite search completed by Kenneth Jackson on Indo- enjoyed these performances and that at Dwarka, near Portuguese Creole...

... a capitalist empire in some ways more like the creole colonies of and this makes the comparison with the Otto- the Dutch East Indies or the British Caribbean, mans viable. But it could, and did, call on the notwithstanding the seizure of the Diwani...

... 37 should be as simple as possible, he advised; do place, as Cohn suggests. This appears to be 32. Wilson, Glossary, xiv. 37. On the pervasiveness of variations of “done” as and Caribbean languages and creoles. See John...

... of Mus- lim societies in the Indian Ocean world. He is cur- rently working on a book titled “Becoming Arab: Creole Histories and Modern Identity in the Malay...

...-Portuguese .” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 25 , no. 1 ( 2010 ): 95 – 119 . Chatterjee I. “ Abolition by Denial: The South Asian Example .” In Campbell , Abolition and Its Aftermath , 150 – 68 . Chatterjee I. Gender, Slavery, and the Law in Colonial...

... by a motif come like Indian and creole [Afro]. of surreptitious vigdance. An important source of pride Virtually every Indo-Wnidadian, and most Afro- as well as corrective touchstone for present-day moral Wnidadians, have at least a passing familiarity with the and spiritual failings...

..., Memories of Madagascar , chaps. 1–2, chap. 4, 117. 40. Vaughn, Creating the Creole Island , 102, 289n9 ; Allen, “Constant Demand” ; Larson, Ocean of Letters . 41. Alpers, Ivory and Slaves , 126 ; Allen, “Constant Demand.” 42. Allen, “Constant Demand,” 62–64, 70 ; Allen...

... Fetish dere vain longing to return to the land where most trans- You nyam goat dere wid all your family ported slaves had been free. In Jamaica African-born These chants sent the spirit back to Africa, to the slaves from different regions and creole slaves were spirits of his homeland...

... Williams . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 303 –16. Braithwaite , Edward . 1971 . The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, 1770–1820 . Oxford: Oxford University Press. Braudel , Fernand . 1972 . “History and the Social Sciences,” in Peter Burke (ed.), Economy and Society...

... of comparative literature in Iran in the light of younger scholars’ and graduate students’ interest in interdisciplinary studies, translation, and world literature. This article is a revised version of a paper presented at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference, “Creoles...

... R C U L A T I O N a n d L A N G U A G E 3. See Swann et al., Dictionary of Sociolinguis- tics, 26. The acrolect/mesolect/basilect frame- work applies to creole and post- creole lan- guages, but it is not possible here to discuss the applicability of the concept of creolization to New Persian. 4...

... and 1890, expenditure went well tom of this class structure were village Creoles (as the above revenue for a period of seven years. Under descendants of slaves were later called) and indige- these constricting circumstances, the merchant class nous Africans, predominantly laborers. The oppor...

... Caribbean, where French is used has a role to play, even if it is only to fight against fran- alongside variants of Creole but not alongside a pre- cophonie]. The polemical relationship to French to which colonial language. In a plurilingual environment such as Yacine gives voice has been central...