Dread Talk: The Rastafarians' Linguistic Response to Societal Oppression

Opposed to the repressive socio-economic political climate that resulted in the impoverishment of masses of Jamaicans, the Jamaican Rastafarians developed a language to resist societal oppression. This study examines that language--Dread Talk--as resistive language. Having determined that the othe...

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Main Author: Manget-Johnson, Carol Anne
Format: Others
Published: Digital Archive @ GSU 2008
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Online Access:http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/44
http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1043&context=english_theses