Guadeloupean
- noun
- /ˌɡwɑːdəˈluːpiən/
- Speaking about such losses led people to more general comments about divided identity, such as the following: 'We Guadeloupeans don't know who we are.'
Examples
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This argument rests on a particular stereotype of the over-assimilated Guadeloupean who yet cannot quite shake off his Caribbean past.
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As a proud Guadeloupean, she shared stories of her island's vibrant history and beautiful landscapes.
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Nonetheless, I knew of only a handful of Guadeloupean-Haitian marriages.
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Discursive Marginality: The Dilemma of Guadeloupean
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Speaking sharply in Guadeloupean Creole, instead of the official and more respectful French, he demanded Marc's papers.
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A working-class Guadeloupean woman I knew lamented that she was the only member of her family never to visit France, and parents routinely urge their talented teenage children to seek higher education and professional training in France.
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They are an unwanted mirror because they reflect back not the Frenchified Guadeloupean culture of today, but the richer, more Antillean-based culture of the past.
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Such sentiments capture the fear of Haitians who, in the Guadeloupean imagination, will undercut their own tenuous European cultural citizenship.
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Recalling that identity is a relationship of difference, I cite the collective identity of this diasporic enclave in the ways Haitians engage Guadeloupean society and conceptualize their place in it.
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The author Maryse Cond has declared that all of the island's ethnic communities are "equally Guadeloupean," and also that the typical islander resident is not racist (Cond 1989).
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Guadeloupean = Guadeloupe (transparent) = Guadeloupe + an
The noun meaning 'a person from Guadeloupe' is directly formed from the place name plus the productive suffix '-an', which learners readily recognize as a nationality/relational marker.
Etymology
Guadeloupean names a person from the island of Guadeloupe and is made from the island name plus the ending -an, the same as American or Mexican. Because the island was named after a Spanish place called Guadalupe, Guadeloupean simply means 'a person from Guadeloupe'.