2012, Volume 2: Double Voicing and Multiplex Identities: Unpacking Hegemonic and Subaltern Discourses in the Caribbean
Complete Citation:
Nicholas Faraclas, Ronald Severing, Christa Weijer, Elisabeth Echteld, Marsha Hinds-Layne (Eds.) (2012). Double Voicing and Multiplex Identities: Unpacking Hegemonic and Subaltern Discourses in the Caribbean, Proceedings of the ECICC-conference, Grenada 2011, Volume 2, ISBN 978-99904-2-314-3. Curaçao: Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma, FPI, University of the Netherlands Antilles, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, FPI/UNA/UPR; 516 pp.
UNPACKING HEGEMONIC AND SUBALTERN DISCOURSES IN CARIBBEAN POETRY AND NARRATIVE 1 Purifying the settlers’ tongue: Marvin Williams’ poetics of legitimating 15 and validating Crucian experience Dannabang Kuwabong 2 An exploration of race, gender, and commitment to community within 27 the fiction and nonfiction of Marvin E. Williams Kevin Kelly 3 “In the presence of rain”: Martin Carter’s poem ‘for Walter Rodney’ 35 Michael Sharp 4 The language of consciousness: listening to the band and listening to the land 41 Gentian Miller 5 Against silence and forgetting: George Lamming and Edwidge Danticat 49 Elsa Maria Hosein 6 Polyrhythms and syncopated rhythms within the Trinidad narrative 57 Kevin Kelly UNPACKING HEGEMONIC AND SUBALTERN DISCOURSES IN THE CARIBBEAN JOURNAL OF EDWARD B. EMERSON IN THE DANISH WEST INDIES AND BEYOND 1831-1832 7 Edward Bliss Emerson’s tri-national diary: Danish West Indies, 65 Puerto Rico and New England, 1831-1832 José Rigau-Pérez 8 Edward Emerson: the medical tourist 67 Wilfredo Geigel 9 Ideology and etiology in the treatment of Edward Emerson’s pulmonary 73 “consumption” Annette Ramírez de Arellano 10 The good, the bad, and the ugly: a proposal for the study of the rhetoric 79 of othering in E. B. Emerson’s Caribbean diary of 1831-1832 Alma Simounet 11 The making of Edward Emerson’s biographical sketch: discovering 85 the elusive quests of a young sojourner Silvia Rabionet 12 Philosophical glimmers in the Caribbean diary of Edward Bliss Emerson 91 Raul Mayo-Santana UNPACKING HEGEMONIC AND SUBALTERN DISCOURSES IN CARIBBEAN LITERATURE WRITTEN BY AND ABOUT WOMEN 13 No way out – almost: the impact of place and space in Brenda Flanagan’s 99 In praise of island women & other crimes Cherie Meacham 14 Ecofeminist currents in Dionne Brand’s At the full and change of the moon 113 Linette Soucy 15 Maryse Condé and Margaret Walker: retrieving the grandmother 123 Nagueyalti Warren 16 Under the silk cotton tree: a healing narrative for Grenada 131 Nereida Prado 17 To her rock and back: Kamau Brathwaite’s tidalectics in Dionne Brand’s 137 At the full and change of the moon María del Carmen Quintero 18 Eastern Caribbean young adult literature comes of age 143 Betsy Nies 19 Caribbean children’s literature and the environment 155 Melissa García Vega UNPACKING HEGEMONIC AND SUBALTERN DISCOURSES CONCERNING THE PROCESS OF CREOLIZATION IN CARIBBEAN LANGUAGES 20 From tomb to tool? Rethinking plantations for a Caribbean philosophy 165 of language Don Walicek 21 Gender issues in the resistance to slavery and creole genesis 175 Cándida González-López 22 Pirate English of the Caribbean and Atlantic trade routes in the 17th 183 and 18th centuries: linguistic hypotheses based on socio-historical data Sally Delgado 23 I speak, therefore I am 199 Hazel Ann Gibbs Depeza 24 Is there evidence of decreolization in Guyanese phonology? 207 Alim Hosein 25 Preserving and revitalizing Grenadian French-lexifier Creole 217 Marguerite-Joan Joseph UNPACKING HEGEMONIC AND SUBALTERN DISCOURSES IN CARIBBEAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS 26 Extreme degree modifiers in Puerto Rican Spanish 231 Melvin González-Rivera, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach 27 Formalización de procesos variables en el Caribe colombiano: las fricativas 245 sordas en el español de Barranquilla y en San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina John Rueda Chaves, Lester Navas Escorcia 28 Lexical treasure: the Taíno legacy of language contact in Puerto Rico 267 Ann Albuyeh 29 The Arawak/Lokono word for man 275 Marie France Patte 30 The functions of code-switching: socio-political expression in 283 a newspaper column Oslyn Campbell 31 Functions and meaning of code-switching: two examples from the Caribbean 293 Robert Dupey 32 Second language learning in the Anglophone Caribbean: immersion 299 in Barbadian culture Janice Jules UNPACKING HEGEMONIC AND SUBALTERN DISCOURSES IN CARIBBEAN MUSIC AND VISUAL ARTS 33 The calypso: performance, drama, fiction and poetry 313 Everard Phillips 34 Carnival musics of Trinidad and Tobago: new trends or business opportunity? 333 Examining the collaborative relationship between pan and calypso/soca composers and arrangers Janine Tiffe 35 Music for steelpan from calypso to kaiso-jazz fusion: an excursion into 337 the history of pan music and pannists in the Trinidad and Tobago musical landscape Meagan Sylvester 36 The impact of globalization on Afro-Guyanese music 345 Coreen Jacobs 37 The Grenada ShortKnee street performance to canvas, getting past the carnival 353 Suelin Low Chew Tung 38 Hidden masks upon the canvas: the transformation of the vejigante in 363 plastic art Carmen Milagros Torres UNPACKING HEGEMONIC AND SUBALTERN DISCOURSES IN CARIBBEAN HISTORY AND POLITICS 39 “A narrative of the insurrection in the Island of Grenada which 375 took place in 1795…” Jo Anne Harris 40 Grenada’s Pax Americana: political developments in Grenada 383 since 1983 Curtis Jacobs 41 The rise of the harbor and the increase in migration to St. Thomas, 399 Danish West Indies 1880-1901 Elizabeth Rezende 42 The actual role and popular image of midwives in the Caribbean: 407 evidence of women’s resistance Damarys Crespo 43 “Prophet in homespun”: Deenabandhu C.F. Andrews in the Caribbean 417 Nalini Natarajan 44 The history behind Wilson Harris’ The far journey of Oudin 427 Ilsa López-Vallés UNPACKING HEGEMONIC AND SUBALTERN DISCOURSES IN CARIBBEAN CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND SOCIETY 45 “One family come from one god”: the saraca ethos & the sacral costs of life 437 Keith Cartwright, Paige Perez 46 Wendigo, Canaima, Caníbal: a journey into the world of Amerindian 445 shape-shifting Melinda Maxwell-Gibb 47 La destrucción de lenguas: una amenaza a la cultura 451 Santiago Ruiz 48 El mantenimiento de la lengua e identidad frente a las actitudes 463 lingüísticas en los puertorriqueños de Santa Cruz, USVI Judith Marie García Lozada 49 Revolution in cultural heritage education in the Caribbean: a Virgin 477 Islands perspective Chenzira Davis Kahina 50 Bridging academic distances in the Caribbean: a brief history of the 497 ‘Islands-In-Between’ Conference (ECICC) Marsha Hinds-Layne ABOUT THE EDITORS 505 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 