2009, Volume 2: Re-centering the ‘Islands in Between’: Re-thinking the Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Eastern Caribbean and the African Diaspora
Complete Citation:
Faraclas, N., Severing, R., Weijer, C., Echteld, L. (Ed.) (2009). Re-centering the ‘Islands in Between’: Re-thinking the languages, literatures and cultures of the Eastern Caribbean and the African diaspora, Curaçao: UNA/FPI, ISBN 978-99904-2-286-3.
RETHINKING THE LANGUAGES OF THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA 1 Done might be an adverb 11 Winford James 2 A contrastive approach to the study of orthography in Jamaican and 33 MartinicanCreoles Nicole Arsenec 3 How can we fill in the historical gaps in theories of creole Genesis? 47 Cándida González-López 4 Marginalized peoples and Creole Genesis: Sociétés de cohabitation 59 and the Founder Principle Candida González López, Lourdes González Cotto, Pier Angeli LeCompte Zambrana, Micah Corum, Diana Ursulin, Rhoda Arrindell, Jean Ourdy Pierre, Marta Viada Bellido de Luna and Nicholas Faraclas RETHINKING THE LITERATURES OF THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA 5 The body as key: Corporal images of women and girls in selected 75 Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad Cherie Meacham 6 Mayotte’s other ideal 85 Keja Valens 7 The use of English lexified Creole in Anglophone Caribbean literature 101 Marta Viada Bellido de Luna 8 Performances that bind: A preliminary reading of dramaturgic elements in 113 Ngugi wa Thiong’O’s I will Marry When I Want, Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain, August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson and Aimé Césaire’s And the Dogs Were Silent. Dannabang Kuwabong 9 The performative power of Calypso: (Re)locating art in Derek 131 Walcott’s Pantomime Katherine Miranda RETHINKING THE CULTURES OF THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA 10 Students from the Dominican Republic in the public schools of St. Croix: 139 Preliminary observations Susana DeJesús 11 Inter-island shipping from the Danish West Indies: Networks across national 161 boundaries providing new occupations for Free Colored men 1780-1804 Elizabeth Rezende 12 Piratical Barbarity or the Female Captive: Gender construct in 1825 175 Eva de Lourdes Edwards 13 Philo-Xylon and the race of ‘Indolent Beggars’ 183 Jo Anne Harris 14 Not afraid of dying: Narratives of the Macusi 191 Gentian Miller Dr. Nicholas Faraclas (Puerto Rico) Prof. Dr. Ronald Severing (Curaçao) Drs. Christa Weijer (Curaça Dr. Elisabeth Liesbeth Echteld (Curaçao)
Islands in Between 