Subject: Re: Other inputs for "bacra"?
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 12:13:51 GMT


Could you give the context of bacra?  I'm thinking buckra--or white person.

Christina E. Sharpe
Asst. Professor of English
Tufts University

"Everything said in the beginning must be said better than in the 
beginning."

Gayl Jones _Corregidora_


>From: Cho Kyu-hyung <hyungcho-AT-mail.korea.ac.kr>
>Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: Other inputs for "bacra"?
>Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:00:41 +0900
>
>Thanks for the clues.  If it's "back raw," then it does not sounds 
>"master."  Walcott uses it as "master" in that context.  Hopes other inputs 
>for this word.
>Thank you.
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Elizabeth Deloughrey
>   To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>   Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 4:41 AM
>   Subject: RE: What is "bacra"?
>
>
>   >Dear Members,
>   Reading Walcott's <Pantomime>, I found the word, "bacra."   I guess it 
>means boss, sahib and so on.  It's not in OED, Webster, etc.  Any body got 
>any clue to the origin and use of the the word?
>   Thanks in advance,
>
>   There's conflicting views on the origins--some say it's from "back raw" 
>while others trace it to a west African word which I can't remember now. 
>Liz
>




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