2013, Volume 2: Transcultural Roots Uprising: The Rhizomatic Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Caribbean
Complete Citation:
Faraclas, Nicholas, Ronald Severing, Christa Weijer, Elisabeth Echteld, Marsha Hinds-Layne (Eds.) (2013). Transcultural Roots Uprising: The Rhizomatic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the Caribbean, Proceedings of the ECICC-conference, St. Thomas 2012, Vol-ume 2, ISBN 978-99904-2-317-4. Curaçao/Puerto Rico: FPI/UNA/UPR/UWI; 548 pp.
SPECIAL SECTION FROM THE 14TH EASTERN CARIBBEAN ISLANDS CULTURES CONFERENCE IN GRENADA NOVEMBER 2011 1 Introduction: ‘Behind the Looking-glass’: A view from Grenada through 15 transnational lenses Joan Anim-Addo Goldsmiths 2 Writing and resistance: tracing Grenada’s written literary tradition 17 Joan Anim-Addo Goldsmiths 3 The choice of opera for a revisionist history: joan anim-addo’s imoinda 33 as a neo-slave narrative Maria Helena Lima 4 Interculturality, creolization and joan anim addo’s imoinda as a 45 “signifying minority” narrative in-between cultures Mina Karavanta 5 Living the archive: joan anim-addo and the case of imoinda 59 Marlène Edwin Goldsmiths 6 ‘Jab jab is we ting’: a socio-political analysis of jab jab mas’ in Grenada 67 Antonia MacDonald 7 Translation, resistance and the transformational poetics of Dorothea 87 Smartt and Amryl Johnson Suzanne Scafe 8 Piracy and creolisation: issues arising from appropriation and adaptation 101 Peter A. Roberts THE RHIZOMATIC LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND CULTURES OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS 9 Narrativizing and perspectivizing the virgin islander underclass in 121 Tiphanie Yanique’s “Street man” Geraldine Elizabeth Skeete 0 The language of resistance: the use of nation language in Marvin Williams’ “Manjack in the hall” Kevin G. Kelly-Cooke 11 The diaspora of puerto ricans in st. Croix: A socio-cultural and historical 137 look at ethnicity, language and identity in a migratory group within a pluricultural context Alma Simounet 12 Susan bough: negotiating through a man’s world of business in 151 the Danish West Indies 1905-1920 Elizabeth Rezende 13 The role of Crucian creole in formal education in st. Croix 161 Geissa R. Torres Santiago 14 The attitudes toward Caribbean creoles of European descended 169 communities in Martinique and st. Croix Diana Ursulin Mopsus 15 Problematizing Caribbean culture, identity and agency 179 Bernhard Bierlich THE RHIZOMATIC LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND CULTURES EMERGING FROM CELTIC AND SOUTH ASIAN INDENTURE IN THE CARIBBEAN 16 Crossing’ the Atlantic: The politics of Irish indenture 187 Jo Anne Harris 17 Whence the Irish in Barbados? 193 Virginia Stewart 18 Barbadoes water: Celtic-Afro-Caribbean distilled rum 199 Eva de Lourdes Edwards 19 The redlegs of Barbados: a tale of trauma, rootlessness, and erasure 205 Elena Lawton de Torruella Traces of Irish linguistic heritage in the Caribbean: The declarative high rise 213 Sally Delgado 21 Diffusion vs. independent emergence of the do be habitual: 221 Exploring linguistic connections between Ireland and the Eastern Caribbean Tamami Shimada 22 Home as a site of refuge and oppression: The Indo-Caribbean woman 241 mediating the discourses of Matikor, Dougla poetics and Kala Pani Nivedita Misra 23 No place like home – displacement in Rambai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge 251 Elsa Hosein 24 The coarse comedy in Ladoo’s Yesterdays: A critique of the 257 Indo-Caribbean lower classes Ilsa López Vallés 25 Trinidadian Douglas and shifting identities 265 Ferne Louanne Regis THE RHIZOMATIC VISUAL, CULINARY AND PERFORMING ARTS OF THE CARIBBEAN 26 The ‘West Indian’ front room: reflections on a diasporic phenomenon 277 Michael McMillan 27 Recipes for national culture in Guadeloupe and Martinique 297 Keja Valens 28 Grenada’s traditional mas: Theatre, history, religion 305 Suelin Low Chew Tung 29 Can the Midnight Robber slam? 315 Katherine Miranda 30 Unpacking the role of women in the pan fraternity of Trinidad and Tobago 321 Meagan Sylvester Nostalgia in Guyanese art and literature 327 Alim Hosein 32 The Middle Passage in two instances of poetry and film: David 337 Dabydeen’s historical poem turner and Guy Deslauriers’s docudrama the Middle Passage Nemesio Gil LINGUISTICS AND THE RHIZOMATIC CULTURES OF THE CARIBBEAN 33 Linguistic domains and controversies: A firewall against 345 Anglicisms in Puerto Rico Ann Albuyeh 34 Defining the limits: Making judgements about Barbadian language 355 Korah Belgrave 35 Maroons, marronage and the question of agency on the part of 365 marginalized peoples in the emergence of the Atlantic creoles Lourdes González Cotto 36 Spiritual marronage, The power of language, and creole genesis 371 Cándida González-López 37 A comparative study of tense, modality and aspect in Limonese 379 creole and Martinican creole Marisol Joseph Haynes and Diana Ursulin Mopsus 38 Cognitive semantics meets creole linguistics 389 Micah Corum 39 Variación en la jerarquía de restricciones de /-s/ en el Caribe Hispánico: 401 ¿Evidencia en contra de una tipologización del Español en la zona? John E. Rueda Chaves LITERATURE AND THE RHIZOMATIC CULTURES OF THE CARIBBEAN 41 Of sun, sulphur, and cyclones: The geopoetics of the island in 417 Daniel Maximin’s Caribbean trilogy Mark Andrews 40 Rhizomatic female protagonists in the work of Claire Harris, Mahadai 425 das, and Marysé Condé Oihida Beloucif 42 The Badjohn in Earl Lovelace’s The dragon can’t dance and 433 The wine of astonishment Louis Regis 43 The hermeneutics of victim and sacrifice in The wine of astonishment 443 Nagueyalti Warren 44 Autobiography as personal and national identity: The case of James Mitchell 451 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines Karen Sanderson 45 Edgar Mittelholzer’s Tropical Gothic 463 Nereida Prado 46 Between covergirl and chloroform-cauliflower: The re-creation of the female 469 character in “Amalia” by Rosario Ferré and Amour by Marie Vieux-Chauvet Keith Cartwright and Dolores Flores-Silva 47 Drawing down her[story]: Male re-presentations in Claire Harris’ drawing 479 down a daughter María del Carmen Quintero 48 The role of the older sister in Caribbean life and literature 489 Petra E. Avillan-Leon RHIZOMATIC HISTORY, EDUCATION AND SOCIETY IN THE CARIBBEAN 49 Walter Rodney’s groundings: “A man who knew about Africa” from 497 liberation to apartheid Michael Sharp Guyana-Brazil border relations and cross cultural fertilization: Opportunity 505 or threat to Guyanese national identity? Carolyn Walcott 51 Fugas y fronteras: The politics of inclusion in San Mateo de Cangrejos, 511 A fugitive settlement of Afro-Caribbean slaves in Puerto Rico Priya Parrotta Natarajan 52 CXC English A & B: Is A average and B bad? 523 Hazel Ann Gibbs De Peza 53 Cultural awareness: Connecting coursework to local topics and 529 students to professors Brianna Grantham 54 Conversation: It’s more than chatter 535 Janice E. Jules 55 The growth of linguistics as a discipline at the University of the 543 West Indies Cave Hill Campus 1974-2011 Marsha Hinds-Layne ABOUT THE EDITORS 549 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 