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By Rosanna Masiola,Renato Tomei

ISBN-10: 3319409360

ISBN-13: 9783319409368

This booklet bargains a brand new standpoint at the position performed by way of colonial descriptions and translation of Caribbean crops in representations of Caribbean tradition. via thorough exam of Caribbean phytonyms in lexicography, colonization, background, songs and translation reviews, the authors argue that the Westernisation of vernacular phytonyms, whereas systematizing the nomenclature, blurred and erased the cultural culture of Caribbean vegetation and medicinal herbs. technique of transmission and upkeep of this oral tradition was once within the plantation songs and herb seller songs. Musical creativity is a robust type of resistance, as on the subject of Reggae tune and the increase of Rastafarians, and Bob Marley’s ‘untranslatable’ lyrics. This publication should be of curiosity to students of Caribbean stories and to linguists drawn to pushing the present Eurocentric barriers of translation studies.

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