Cosmopolitan or mongrel?: Créolité, hybridity and 'douglarisation'in Trinidad

European Journal of Cultural Studies

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 331-353

  Stoddard, Eve ^a   Cornwell, Grant H ^a  

^a ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean; creole; creolisation; cultural identity; dougla; douglarisation; hybridity; jahap bhai

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954206030     PISSN: 13675494     EISSN: 14603551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136754949900200303     Document Type: Article

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