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Aliyah N.C.'s avatar

Love this detail on reclaming language in Caribbean writing - you're so right and I would have never thought of it like that. Also love that quote - Arion put it nicely: "While Dutch in the Antilles is constantly influencing Papiamentu [...] I Antilleanize Dutch." For me language learning has been so important in tracing our interlaced heritage and similarly I guess this is why.

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Amara Amaryah's avatar

I also just love that quote. Thanks so much for sharing your perspective too Aliyah!

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kenzi m.'s avatar

ooh i really appreciate you calling attention to Vernon, Walcott, and Arion’s intentionality in writing in the colonizer’s language. powerful!

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Amara Amaryah's avatar

super powerful! Thanks for reading and noticing my love

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