2014, Volume 2: Creolization and Commonalities: Transgressing Neocolonial Boundaries in the Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Caribbean and the Rest of the African Diaspora
Complete Citation:
Faraclas, Nicholas, Ronald Severing, Christa Weijer, Elisabeth Echteld, Wim Rutgers (Eds.) (2014). Creolization and Commonalities: Transgressing Neocolonial Boundaries in the Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Caribbean and the Rest of the African Diaspora, Proceedings of the ECICC, Aruba 2013, Volume 2, ISBN 978-99904-2-349-5. Curaçao/Puerto Rico: FPI/UoC; 420 pp.
TRANSGRESSING GENDER AND SPATIAL BOUNDARIES IN LITERATURE 1 The artist as griot: two knives in the widow’s house 15 Chidi T. Maduka 2 Naughty and nude: interrogating dissident female sexuality in The autobiography 29 of my mother and Tongues on fire: Caribbean lesbian lives and stories Fay White 3 In the eye of the storm: Erzulie’s place in Caribbean ecopoetics 37 Mark Andrews 4 Spatial constructs of loss and recuperation in Marie-Elena John’s Unburnable 47 Cherie Meacham 5 Women’s policed bodies and sexual expression: Fanon’s oversights in Claude 55 McKay’s Banana Bottom Isabel Guzzardo TRANSGRESSING BOUNDARIES IN LINGUISTICS 6 Metonymic reasoning in Ghanaian Student Pidgin: a focus on noun to verb 67 conversions Kwaku Osei-Tutu & Micah Corum 7 Emerging sign languages: evidence from the Caribbean 77 Janet Andrews 8 The Spanish gerund in Puerto-Crucian 85 Melvin González-Rivera 9 The fine structure of the nominal in Tobagonian Creole 101 Adanma K. Graham 10 El español boricua visto como lengua de contacto 111 Marta Viada Bellido de Luna 11 Attitudes towards Limonese Creole 121 Marisol Joseph-Haynes TRANSGRESSING BOUNDARIES IN LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND SOCIETY 20 Daemons and furies in Wilson Harris’s The four banks of the river of space 215 Nereida Prado 21 Wilson Harris: magical realism, myth and resistance to colonization 221 Maritza V. Cardona Ortiz 22 The sacred votive in Derek Walcott’s poetry 227 Nagueyalti Warren 23 Two birds of a feather ebb and flow together: Kamau Brathwaite’s 233 tidalectics in Derek Walcott’s Omeros María del Carmen Quintero 24 Not ready for Africa 241 Francisco Mojica TRANSGRESSING BOUNDARIES IN LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY 25 Irish identity and piratical resistance in the Caribbean 247 Eva de Lourdes Edwards 26 Pirating politics: when the Irish ruled Montserrat 255 Jo Anne Harris 27 The myth of little England: exploring the formative context of Barbadian 265 language and identity Sally J. Delgado 28 The importance of a transdisciplinary approach and the use of oral history for 275 the study of migratory peoples: following the trail from Vieques to St. Croix Ana M. Fabián 29 A plan for the study of otherness, language maintenance and notions 281 and acts of identity among Puerto Rican migrants to St. Croix Alma Simounet 30 St. Croix, Vieques and Puerto Rico 287 Wilfredo A. Geigel 31 Ay ay: Diasporan Indigenous Afrakan heritage in St. Croix & our Caribbean 295 Chenzira Davis Kahina TRANSGRESSING BOUNDARIES IN LANGUAGE PLANNING, POLICY AND EDUCATION 32 A preliminary survey of undergraduates’ perceptions of English language 309 needs at a university in Guyana Pamela Rose & Rajkumar Sookraj 33 Separate or inseparable: measuring listening and speaking proficiency 325 in teaching English as a second language Janice E. Jules 34 Spanish and English in Puerto Rico 337 Melvin González Rivera & Luis A. Ortiz López 35 The impact of Freirian theory and popular education on ESL education 347 in the Caribbean Marta Viada Bellido de Luna 36 Should we fear English? A study of resistance towards globalization 355 through language Gabriel E. Mejía González TRANSGRESSING BOUNDARIES IN TRAVEL WRITING ABOUT THE CARIBBEAN 37 An editor’s view of Edward Bliss Emerson’s trans-national journal: 363 Danish West Indies, Puerto Rico and New England, 1831-1834 José G. Rigau-Pérez 38 Narrative anticipation of American exceptionalism in Edward Bliss 371 Emerson’s Caribbean journal Raúl Mayo-Santana 39 Edward Bliss Emerson: the blazing star of a complex constellation 375 Silvia E. Rabionet12 Slavery and culture in Puerto Rico: the elusive ethnic boundaries of 129 West African slaves, 1518-1873 César Solá-García 13 John Messer: the entrepreneurship of a free colored captain of Frederiksted, 139 1750-1819 Elizabeth Rezende 14 Freedom for the emancipated: August 1, 1838 in the British Caribbean 151 Don E. Walicek 15 Un paso entre la literatura y la historia: biografía de un cimarrón de Miguel 163 Barnet Lara Caride Alonso 16 Hip-hop, dancehall and reggae gospel in the pentecostal movement – a new 179 religious culture Coreen Jacobs 17 Whither Caribbean integration: reasoning the political economy of the 185 Caribbean region post 1945 Carolyn Walcott 18 Neocolonialism and development: literature and land use practices 193 in the Caribbean Gabriel J. Jiménez TRANSGRESSING CANONICAL BOUNDARIES IN LITERATURE 19 The Carib bone-flute music in Palace of the peacock 205 Gentian Miller 40 Edward B. Emerson and slavery 393 Annette B. Ramírez de Arellano 41 The analysis of the rhetoric of othering in E.B. Emerson’s Caribbean 399 journal of 1831-1832: the good, the bad, and the ugly Alma Simounet ABOUT THE EDITORS 411 ABOUT THE AUTHORS Dr. Nicholas Faraclas (Puerto Rico) Prof. Dr. Ronald Severing (Curaçao) Drs. Christa Weijer (Curaça Dr. Elisabeth Echteld (Curaçao) Prof. Dr. Wim Rutgers
Islands in Between 