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- Title Ocean of Letters: Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora
- Author Pier M. Larson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 398
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
- Date 2009-05-14
- ISBN 9780521739573 / 0521739578
- Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Library of Congress subjects Malagasy language - Islands of the Indian, Malagasy language - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009000061
- Dewey Decimal Code 499.37
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Ocean of Letters is a remarkable history of imperialism, language, and creolization in the largest African diaspora of the Indian Ocean in the early modern period. Ranging from Madagascar to the Mascarenes, the Comores, and South Africa, Pier M. Larson sheds new light on the roles of slavery, emancipation, oceanic travel, Christian missions, and colonial linguistics in the making of Malagasy-language literacy in the islands of the western Indian Ocean. He shows how enslaved and free Malagasy together with certain European colonists and missionaries promoted the Malagasy language, literacy projects and letter writing in the multilingual colonial societies of the region between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Addressing current debates in the history of Africa and the African diaspora, slavery, abolition, creolization and the making of modern African literatures, the book crosses thematic as well as geo-imperial… Read More
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