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Date: 23-Dec-2010
From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: West of Eden: Masiola, Tomei
 

	
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Title: West of Eden 
Subtitle: Botanical Discourse, Contact Languages and Translation 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Author: Rosanna Masiola
Author: Renato Tomei

Hardback: ISBN:  9781443810050 Pages: 245 Price: U.K. £ 39.99


Abstract:

Please Note: This is a new version of a previously announced text.

West of Eden is an extensive cross-disciplinary study covering a huge range 
of topics in the field of botanical discourse within colonial and post-colonial 
contexts. Stemming from an existing European tradition of name giving to 
take possession of the 'rarities' of the new world, it extends to female writing, 
songs and Bible translation into Creoles. It analyses the diversity of 
nomenclature in the different geographic areas: the Americas, the Caribbean, 
Australia, New Zealand and Africa.

What is at stake here is also the loss of roots and identity when, as in the 
case of the Afro-Caribbean plants have been brought along the slave-route 
from the different parts of Africa. 

With other established authorities (Allsopp, Alleyne, Cassidy), the authors 
take vibrant stance against the prejudice that contact languages develop 
endless synonyms for one plant, when phytonyms are allonyms, i.e. coming 
from other places and other languages. But most of all West of Eden tells us 
a lot about the richness of an eco-literature which is at risk. The loss of a 
flower or plant, may also mean the loss of the name it had in language 
system, and vice-versa. The two factors are inter-dependent. 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Ling & Literature
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Translation


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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