5. Portuguese Creole Folklore

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents viii
3. Preface. Discovering South Asian Portuguese xi
4. 1. Portuguese Language and Culture in Sri Lanka 1
5. 2. Portuguese Creoles on the West Coast of India 9
6. 3. The Nevill Manuscript 31
7. 4. Unity of Indo-Portuguese Creole Verse in the Oral Tradition 37
8. 5. Portuguese Creole Folklore 61
9. 6. Kaffirs and Kaferingha: Music and Verse Out of Africa 73
10. 7. Valentine and Orson: A European Folk Narrative in Sri Lankan Portuguese 87
11. 8. Bela Infanta: Ballad Fragments in Creole Verse 95
12. 9. Cantha Sen Vargonya: Indo-Portuguese Creole Verse 105
13. Bibliography 123
14. Appendix 137