About Some Old Creole Tenets: Losses, Forgetfulness, Disappearance, Reappeareance, Findings

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_208
dc.title	About Some Old Creole Tenets: Losses, Forgetfulness, Disappearance, Reappeareance, Findings
dc.contributor.author	Costantini Alessandro
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	fr
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2015/1/de-quelques-catechismes-creoles-anciens-oublis-per/
dc.description.abstract	In the wide field of postcolonial studies, there exist related or similar areas whose stories are nevertheless very different, if not indeed opposed. This is the case of catechisms in Romance languages (or of Romance origin), outcomes of European colonization. In particular, contradictions between the history of catechisms from Hispanic-American colonization and the catechisms produced by French colonization, in America and elsewhere. The latter appear a century and a half after the Spanish texts, and exhibit completely distinct characteristics: different periods, settings, actors, and especially recipients. I set out to recount the often adventurous history of the oldest catechisms in the French colonies, or ex-colonies, of the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. Written in Creole or sometimes other indigenous languages, they are precious linguistic records. Compiled in the colonies, but not always published, these texts are often forgotten, lost, misplaced, resurfaced, discovered.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 49 \| September 2015
dc.issued	2015-09-01
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-1562
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2385-3034/AnnOc-49-15-4
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Caribbean and Indian Ocean
dc.subject	Caribbean and Indian Ocean
dc.subject	Catechisms
dc.subject	Catechisms
dc.subject	Creole languages
dc.subject	Creole languages
dc.subject	French colonies
dc.subject	French colonies

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Alessandro Costantini Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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In the wide field of postcolonial studies, there exist related or similar areas whose stories are nevertheless very different, if not indeed opposed. This is the case of catechisms in Romance languages (or of Romance origin), outcomes of European colonization. In particular, contradictions between the history of catechisms from Hispanic-American colonization and the catechisms produced by French colonization, in America and elsewhere. The latter appear a century and a half after the Spanish texts, and exhibit completely distinct characteristics: different periods, settings, actors, and especially recipients. I set out to recount the often adventurous history of the oldest catechisms in the French colonies, or ex-colonies, of the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. Written in Creole or sometimes other indigenous languages, they are precious linguistic records. Compiled in the colonies, but not always published, these texts are often forgotten, lost, misplaced, resurfaced, discovered.

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Sept. 1, 2015

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Keywords: Catechisms • Creole languages • Caribbean and Indian Ocean • French colonies

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