Barbara Lalla

Barbara
Lalla

Barbara Lalla is Professor Emerita, Language and Literature, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Her publications include Postcolonialisms: Caribbean Rereading of Medieval English Discourse, Defining Jamaican Fiction: Marronage and the Discourse of Survival, and the companion volumes Language in Exile: Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole.

Barbara Lalla is Professor Emerita, Language and Literature, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Her publications include Postcolonialisms: Caribbean Rereading of Medieval English Discourse, Defining Jamaican Fiction: Marronage and the Discourse of Survival, and the companion volumes Language in Exile: Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole.

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