Imported Topics, Foreign Vocabularies: Dread Talk, the Cuban Connection

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Pollard,Velma (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Feb 2006
    Published:
    Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
    Journal Title Details:
    10(1) : 59-75
    Subject Term:
    Language and linguistics and Rastafarian movement
    Notes:
    Discusses words from Jamaican dread talk that are integrated into the Spanish spoken by Rastas in Cuba. Existence of international dread talk words in lists of Rasta words; Translation of the term Cabeza Creadora as head of family; Categories of Cuban Rastafarian community.;

    Tools