2010, Volume 2: In a Sea of Heteroglossia: Pluri-Lingualism, Pluri-Culturalism, and Pluri-Identification in the Caribbean
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Faraclas, Nicholas, Ronald Severing, Christa Weijer, Elisabeth Echteld, Marsha Hinds-Layne, Elena Lawton de Torruella (Eds.) (2010). In a Sea of Heteroglossia: Pluri-Lingualism, Pluri-Culturalism, and Pluri-Identification in the Caribbean, Volume 2. Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma, FPI, Universiteit van de Nederlandse Antillen, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, UPR, University of the West Indies at Cave Hill UWI, ISBN 978-99904-2-300-6. 422 pp.
I. PLURI-LINGUALISM: MULTIPLE LITERACIES PLURI-LINGUALISM, LANGUAGE CONTACT AND LINGUISTICS 1 Semantic diversity in the Caribbean: Interrogating the “Creole” concept 13 Ilia Aixa Madrazo, Migdalia Medina, Mervyn Alleyne 2 African agency in the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles 37 Pier Angeli Le Compte, Lourdes González Cotto, Diana Ursulin, Susana C. DeJesús, Cándida González-López, Brenda L. Domínguez-Rosado, Micah Corum, Aida Vergne, Nicholas Faraclas 3 St. Croix: A pluri-Lingual and pluri-Cultural island 53 Susana DeJesús 4 Arawak vs. Lokono. What‟s in a name? 75 Marie-France Patte 5 Conscious choice and constructed identities: A study of written 87 codeswitching between Crucian and Standard English in St Croix Sally J. Delgado 6 The scientific significance and social responsibilities 111 of linguistic fieldwork in the Northeastern Caribbean: The case of St. Croix Brenda L. Domínguez-Rosado PLURI-LINGUALISM, LANGUAGE CONTACT AND EDUCATION 7 Nursery school teachers‟ attitudes toward Guyanese Creole 123 Coreen Jacobs-Chester 8 The ABCs of teacher language proficiency 135 Stacy Denny 9 Towards real cultural dialogue in Caribbean education 153 Marie-Annick Gournet 10 The search for innovative approaches to help native speakers 165 of Guyanese Creole master Standard English Coreen Jacobs-Chester 11 A new opportunity for development in the region: An Eastern 175 Caribbean Postgraduate Studies Center Regla Diago-Pinillos II. PLURI-CULTURALISM: MULTIPLE HISTORICITIES PLURI-CULTURALISM AND HISTORY 12 Connections between the Eastern Caribbean and the Central American 181 Caribbean Coast: The history and demographics of the Garifuna and other African and Afro-Indigenous descended peoples Santiago J. Ruiz 13 Queens of the Virgins: Ancestral visions in contemporary Virgin Islands 191 folklore and drama ChenziRa D. Kahina 14 African religious survivals in death rituals 201 Gentian Miller 15 The Spiritual Baptist Faith: Syncretic religion and cultural tradition 209 in the Eastern Caribbean region Patricia Stephens 16 A voyage in the West Indies: John Augustine Waller‟s “familiar view 217 of the West India Islands” Jo Anne Harris 17 Water Gut as an Industrial Park of Christiansted, former Danish 227 West Indies 1756-1813 Elizabeth Rezende PLURI-CULTURALISM, LITERATURE, MUSIC AND EXPRESSION 18 The poetic legacy of Daniel Thaly 237 Mark Andrews 19 Reconciling differences: Michael Anthony‟s Green Days by the River 245 Wendell Villanueva 20 Rhythmic importation, linguistic adaptation and integration in Aruban 253 music: An analysis of the place and development of Calypso and Soca in Aruban society Gregory T. E. Richardson 21 Assessing the links between identity and soca music in the Trinidad 265 and Tobago music industry Meagan A. Sylvester 22 The restoration of Bamboula: A St. Croix experience 273 ChenziRa D. Kahina 23 Purpose before money: Planning language festivals in the Caribbean 285 Marsha Hinds-Layne III. PLURI-IDENTIFICATION: MULTIPLE SOLIDARITIES PLURI-IDENTIFICATION, WOMEN, SPIRITUALITY, AND LITERATURE 24 Screaming silence: Testimony and trauma in Shani Mootoo‟s 303 Cereus Blooms at Night Cherie Meacham 25 Jamaica Kincaid: Image, manipulation and perception 311 Cynthia Pittmann 26 Obeah and cultural paradox in Annie John 319 Kristin Cobos 27 There‟s always the other side: Agency and authority in Creole initiation 325 Keith Cartwright 28 Does a thread of magical realism pervade Roderick Walcott‟s Malfinis? 333 Samantha S. P. Mitchell 29 Bolom symbolism in Derek Walcott, Dionne Brand, and Robert Antoni 341 Nereida Prado PLURI-IDENTIFICATION, LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND EXPRESSION 30 Poetics of intimate voices: Exploring identity politics in US Virgin 351 Islands‟ poetry Dannabang Kuwabong 31 Survival, resistance and resurgence: Reclaiming our own „utterances‟ 369 Melinda Maxwell-Gibb 32 (Re)Visiting Dominica‟s past, (Ad)Venturing into her future: Interrogating 377 identity formation in Marie-Elena John‟s Unburnable Tyrone Ali 33 Language variation as „verbal resourcefulness and aesthetic 391 completeness‟: The sociolinguistics of Derek Walcott Martha Isaac 34 The power of the word – The evaluative functions of prefabricated language 403 Korah Belgrave ABOUT THE EDITORS 413 ABOUT THE AUTHORS Dr. Nicholas Faraclas (Puerto Rico) Prof. Dr. Ronald Severing (Curaçao) Drs. Christa Weijer (Curaça Dr. Elisabeth Echteld (Curaçao) Marsha Hinds-Layne MA (Barbados)
Islands in Between 