2011, Volume 2: Anansi’s Defiant Webs: Contact, Continuity, Convergence, and Complexity in the Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Greater Caribbean
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Faraclas, Nicholas, Ronald Severing, Christa Weijer, Elisabeth Echteld, Marsha Hinds-Layne (Eds.) (2011). Anansi’s Defiant Webs, Contact, Continuity, Convergence, and Comple-xity in the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the Greater Caribbean, Proceedings of the ECICC-conference Guyana 2010. Volume 2. Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Id-ioma, FPI, University of the Netherlands Antilles, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, UPR, University of the West Indies at Cave Hill UWI. FPI/UNA ISBN: 978-99904-2-307-5. 355 pp.
CONTACT, CONTINUITY, CONVERGENCE, AND COMPLEXITY IN CARIBBEAN LANGUAGES 1 A pan-Creole innovation? 13 Ian Hancock 2 The come for construction in Crucian: new insights on the verb/preposition 21 interface in Afro-Atlantic Languages Micah Corum 3 Preposition-stranding under sluicing in Puerto Rican Spanish 27 Melvin González-Rivera, Ramón E. Padilla-Reyes, John Rueda Chaves 4 Negation, modification, and the syntax of Puerto Rican Spanish 47 Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Melvin González-Rivera 5 Patrones sociolingüísticos en el Caribe colombiano: las fricativas 59 sordas en el español de Baranquilla John Rueda Chaves, Lester Navas Escorcia 6 Tracing African language and culture in Trinidad and Puerto Rico 79 Ann Albuyeh 7 A lexical comparison of Jamaican English and cant: exploring 93 the influence of marginalized British Englishes in the Caribbean Sally J. Delgado 8 Extending the socio-cultural matrix of creolization in the Caribbean and the 107 rest of the Afro-Atlantic to include the Portuguese and Spanish-lexifier Creoles Aida Vergne, Marisol Joseph Haynes, Diana Ursulin Mopsus, Lourdes González Cotto, Cándida González López, Sally Delgado, Hannia Lao Meléndez, Darlene Albert, Dámarys Crespo, Neusa Rodríguez, Nicholas Faraclas CONTACT, CONTINUITY, CONVERGENCE, AND COMPLEXITY IN CARIBBEAN EDUCATION AND SOCIETY 9 Meditation on a student‟s journal page 123 Charlene V. Wilkinson 10 Caribbean Standard English: „How to explain it nuh!‟ 131 Marsha Hinds-Layne 11 Language and globalization: cyberspace language in students‟ writing 139 Coreen Jacobs-Chester 12 Challenges in teacher preparation for postcolonial transformation of` 145 Literature teaching Martin Jones 13 Empowerment through curriculum change: adapting the CSEC English 149 Language Syllabus towards improved academic and social achievement of deaf students in the Caribbean Samantha S. P. Mitchell 14 Stepping up to higher education: the role and effectiveness of continuing 157 education and professional certificate courses in encouraging „laddering‟ into main-stream higher education programmes Gillian Glean-Walker 15 Unmasking the myth of Spanish language use in the United States: 169 the diaspora from Latin America and the Hispanic Caribbean Alma Simounet 16 Christianity, literacy, and creolization in nineteenth-century Anguilla 181 Don E. Walicek CONTACT, CONTINUITY, CONVERGENCE, AND COMPLEXITY IN CARIBBEAN LITERATURES 17 The space of trauma: Wilson Harris‟ Jonestown 193 Tim Donovan 8 Of rebels, tricksters, and supernatural beings: toward a semiotics 199 of myth performance in African Diasporic drama Dannabang Kuwabong 19 The Vodun paradigm in Wilson Harris‟s Resurrection at sorrow hill 213 Nereida Prado 20 White man vs. Black man: exploring Euro-Centric sexuality in David 221 Dabydeen‟s Turner and its historical impact on lower strata Afro-Caribbean masculinities Tyrone Ali 21 Mother dear, where art thou? The absence of the Mother Figure in David 233 Dabydeen‟s Work Ilsa López-Vallés 22 Praising Africans Elsewhere: Kamau Brathwaite‟s Barabajan Poems 241 Michael Sharp 23 Caribbean women in spoken word, poetry and choreopoetry: exploring 249 the works of Esther Phillips, Opal Palmer Adisa and Others ChenziRa Davis Kahina 24 Heteroglossia: the languages of poetry, song and dance 257 Gentian Miller CONTACT, CONTINUITY, CONVERGENCE, AND COMPLEXITY IN CARIBBEAN CULTURES 25 Creolizing de Christ Mas: Creolization and globalization in the 267 development of the St Kitts Christmas Sports Simon Lee 26 Understanding identity through the lyrical lens of the carnival musics 273 of Trinidad and Tobago Meagan Sylvester 7 The changing face of labor and land in St. Croix 1908-1917 285 Elizabeth Rezende 28 Trajectories of cultural feedback: Alan Lomax in 1962 Anguilla 295 Don E. Walicek 29 Garifuna: a history of defiance and struggle 303 Maritza Reyes Laborde 30 Arguments for an adstrate perspective: a new field guide for the Caribbean 315 Vanessa D. Austin 31 Promised land: Quilombismo, the “quilombo clause”, and the politics of 323 recognition in contemporary Brazil Priya Parrotta Natarajan 32 The moon has a dirty face: an exploration into the migration of an 337 Amerindian origin myth Melinda Maxwell-Gibb ABOUT THE EDITORS 347 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)
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