The Crucible of Carolina: Essays in the Development of Gullah Language and Culture

Author/Contributor(s):	Rosengarten, Dale
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	07/15/2008
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Ten essays explore the connections between the language and culture of South Carolina's barrier islands, West Africa, the Caribbean, and England. The work covers such topics as names and naming, the language of religious rituals, basket-making traditions, creole discourse patterns, and the grammatical morphology of Gullah.