{"id":2835,"date":"2026-10-22T15:12:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T22:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2026-10-22T16:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:13:16","slug":"surrogate-texts-for-entwisted-tongues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2026\/10\/22\/surrogate-texts-for-entwisted-tongues\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrogate Texts for Entwisted Tongues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2838\" src=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_0878.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_0878.jpg 330w, https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_0878-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">GEntwisted Tongues is a work of passion that conquers through its erudition, seduces through its interpretations,<br \/>\nand convinces through its style.<br \/>\n&lt; \u00a0Maximlien Laroche, <em>Research in African Literatures<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">After a quarter of a century, Entwisted Tongues \u00a0has gone out-of-print. an ebook is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyterbrill.com\/document\/isbn\/9789004657151\/html\">here<\/a>. For those interested but who cannot afford the big bucks, herewith of PDFs of surrogate published pieces of mine <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">relating to the topic:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Primer of Haitian Literature in Krey\u00f2l<\/strong><\/em> , 2004. <em>Widely read introduction to writing in Ayisyin. <\/em>PDF <a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/35.2lang.pdf\">here<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Basilects in Creole Literature. examples from Sranan, Capeverdian Crioulo and Antillean Kreyol<\/strong>, 2005. PDF <a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Basilects-in-Creole-Literatures-.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<em><strong>Islands, Enclaves, Continua: Notes Toward a Comparative History of Caribbean Creole Literatures, <\/strong><\/em>1992. \u00a0<em>A comparative academic approach to Negerhollands, Sranan, Lesser Antillean Kr\u00e9yol, Haitian and Papiamentu<\/em>. PDF <a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/A-History-of-Literature-in-the-Caribbean.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kribich, \u00a0cribiche, ou \u00e9crevisse : L\u2019avenir de l\u2019\u00c9loge de la Cr\u00e9olit\u00e9<\/strong>, 1992. \u00a0<em>In French, a study of dialects in Antillean Kr\u00e9yol literatures<\/em>. PDF <a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Kribich.pdf\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>In Every Clime: Literary Notes around the Discovery of Sranan-Tongo<\/strong><\/em>, 1991 <em>A <\/em><em style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">paper treating John Stedman&#8217;s report on early Sranan<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">. PDF<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Lang-on-Stedman.pdf\">here<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; GEntwisted Tongues is a work of passion that conquers through its erudition, seduces through its interpretations, and convinces through its style. &lt; \u00a0Maximlien Laroche, Research in African Literatures *** After a quarter of a century, Entwisted Tongues \u00a0has gone out-of-print. an ebook is available here. For those interested but who cannot afford the big &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2026\/10\/22\/surrogate-texts-for-entwisted-tongues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Surrogate Texts for Entwisted Tongues&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}