Essays on Creole

Many people in today’s world have trouble when it comes to communicating. In literature many authors use communication as a way to either create relationships or to create barriers in one. In the novel The Dew Breaker, by Edwidge Danticat, many characters struggle when it...

The Dew Breaker, a novel by Edwidge Danticat that tells of Jean-Claude Duvalier’s inherited dictatorship in Haiti, appears to be a novel about two things. On the one hand, it documents the life and trials of a Tonton Macoute, a government sanctioned torturer; on the...

In October of 1841, the slave ship Creole sailed from Virginia to New Orleans, carrying a crew of 19 and 135 slaves. On November 7, 1841, as the ship approached the Bahamas, Madison Washington ran up to the deck and called on the other slaves...

Introduction In recent years, exploring the deep roots from which contact languages, such as pidgins and creoles, had grown become a subject of interest for many scholars in the fields of linguistics, sociolinguistics, and anthropology. Hugo Schuchardt (1842-1927), a German linguist, was undoubtedly the first...

Introduction Where there are people, there will be the use of language – languages which may be different. With the interaction of these people, their languages will also come into contact, and this can produce a variety of results. The outcome of such situations, however,...