2015, Volume 2: Envisioning the Greater Caribbean: Transgressing Geographical and Disciplinary Boundaries
Complete Citation:
Faraclas, Nicholas, Ronald Severing, Christa Weijer, Elisabeth Echteld, Wim Rutgers & Robert Dupey (Eds.) (2015). Embracing Multiple Identities: Opting out of neocolonial monolingualism, monoculturalism and mono-identification in the Dutch Caribbean, Proceedings of the ECICC, St. Barbados 2015, Volume 1, ISBN 978-99904-5-029-3. Curaçao/Puerto Rico: UoC/UPR; 248 pp.
AFRO-COSTA RICAN LITERATURE: QUINCE DUNCAN AND ANACRISTINA ROSSI 1 Re-memory as resistance in Quince Duncan’s A message from Rosa 13 Nagueyalti Warren 2 Centroamerican messages, multiple voicings, and Afrorealist 21 musication in Quince Duncan’s A message from Rosa Keith Cartwright and Virginia Stewart 3 “NI KU TU” Yanga: the sound of the drum announcing love, cultural 25 integration and abolition of slavery in Yangaland, Veracruz Dolores Flores-Silva 4 Heeding nature’s call: re-visiting testimonial strategies in Anacristina Rossi’s 33 La loca de Gandoca Cherie Meacham LITERATURE AND GENDER IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN 5 Unveiling shrouded sites: reconstructing female identity and experience 43 through spaces of interiority in Jamaica Kincaid’s At the bottom of the river Aisha T. Spencer 6 Opal Palmer Adisa’s It begins with tears as a spiritual feminist healing narrative 57 Nereida Prado 7 Comparative analysis of Gloria Escoffery’s and Lelawattee Manoo- 65 Rahming’s poetry Ilsa López-Vallés 8 Sexism and misogyny in Caribbean literature 75 Gentian Miller LITERATURE IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN 9 Aquapoetics and environmental depredation in Patrick Chamoiseau’s 85 Biblique des derniers gestes Mark Andrews 10 Restoring Africa to the Caribbean: Achilles’ journey in Derek Walcott’s 95 Omeros Michael Sharp 11 The intersection of memory and history: memories of physical and sexual 101 violence in Ramabai Espinet’s The swinging bridge. Kevin Kelly-Cooke 12 “¿A merced de quien hemos quedado?” El conflicto armado colombiano: una 111 mirada crítica a través de tres novelas contemporáneas (1998-2013) Willem Bant CALYPSO AND PERFORMANCE IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN 13 Old world influences on Afro-Creole masquerades in the Eastern Caribbean 119 Robert W. Nicholls 14 Mechanisms of call and response in the calypso art form as mechanisms of 125 conflict transformation 15 Breaking the rules at carnival time: narratives of resistance in Trinidad’s 141 Carnival music Meagan Sylvester 16 Del griot a las nuevas producciones limonenses 151 Gerardo E. Meza Sandoval CULTURE AND AFRO-CARIBBEAN IDENTITY IN COSTA RICA 17 Gender, discourses of respectability and the issue of Afro-Costa Rican 163 citizenship in the journalistic work of Dolores Joseph Montout (1900-1950) Karla Araya Araya 18 Identidad cultural y derechos humanos de las mujeres afrodescendientes de 175 Costa Rica Leonora Spencer 19 Afro-Costa Ricans and the United Nations International Decade for People 189 of African Descent Ann Albuyeh CULTURE, IDENTITY, POLITICS AND EDUCATION IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN 20 Remembering 20th century militant lyricism and feminine empowerment 201 in Suzanne Césaire’s “The great camouflage” Chenzira Davis Kahina 21 Carmwac, massahianism and Caribbean creolism 211 Humphrey A. Regis 22 Being and doing us: a community of practice study of the Upper West 221 Students’ Union of the University of Education, Ghana Elizabeth Orfson Offei 23 A quality assurance model for evaluating franchised programmes: the 235 case of UWI, Mona, Jamaica June Wheatley and Anna Kasafi Perkins CULTURE AND POLITICS IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS AND THE PUERTO RICAN DIASPORA 24 On speaking Crucian, the language of St. Croix, and the impact of Hip Hop 249 Susana C. Dejesús 25 The paradox of Anglo-Irish identity in the Danish West Indies 271 Jo Anne Harris 26 Efforts to convert United States Virgin Islands colonialism to democracy 277 Dale Francis 27 La diáspora latina en los Estados Unidos de América: un acercamiento desde 285 el análisis crítico del discurso a la obra poética de algunos poetas chicanos y neorriqueños Alma Simounet LANGUAGE SURVIVAL AND MAINTENANCE IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN 28 Instrumental and awareness-raising programs in Haiti and Guadeloupe 301 Patrick-André Mather 29 The perception of risk: an element which can influence decisions in 307 relation to endangered or threatened languages Petra E. Avillan-Leon 30 Wuh Allsopp tink she talking ‘bout? Bajan vs Standard English as 311 mother tongue Kerri-Ann Haynes-Knight, Keisha Evans, and Tracy Winters-Evans 31 ‘Dis language is mine’ – the link between language and cultural identity: 321 a case study of the preservation of Bajan in Atlanta, Georgia Janice Jules SPANISH IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN 32 Extremeness and gradability in Puerto Rican Spanish 331 Ramón E. Padilla-Reyes, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, and Melvin González-Rivera 33 Apuntes sobre la distinción tan/más en el español puertorriqueño 347 Miriam Borrero, Melvin González Rivera, and Javier Gutiérrez Rexach 34 Diferencias por razón de sexo en la producción de líquidas en niños 355 puertorriqueños de entre 3 y 4 años Dorian N. González Bonilla 35 Tú, vos, usted, or you? The curious case of differences in the use of second 367 person pronouns in Costa Rican Spanish, Puerto Rican Spanish, and English Brenda L. Domínguez Rosado LANGUAGE, RESEARCH AND SOCIETY IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN 36 Fear and loathing in the Afro-Atlantic: on metaphor and metonymy 377 in concept construction and the creole lexicon Micah Corum 37 Creative license or linguistic data: why we can (and should) 391 use literary representations of Caribbean speech in linguistic research Sally J. Delgado 38 Historical account of deaf education in Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and 397 Tobago and its impact on these deaf communities Melissa Angus Baboun ABOUT THE EDITORS 405 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 