2016, Volume 2: Celebrating Multiple Identities: Opting out of neocolonial monolingualism, monoculturalism and mono-identification in the Greater Caribbean
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Faraclas, Nicholas, Ronald Severing, Christa Weijer, Elisabeth Echteld, Wim Rutgers & Robert Dupey (Eds.) (2016). Celebrating Multiple Identities Opting out of neocolonial monolingualism, monoculturalism and mono-identification in the Greater Caribbean, Proceedings of the ECICC, Barbados 2015, Volume 2, ISBN 978-99904-5-028-6. Curaçao/Puerto Rico: UoC/UPR; 426 pp.
MULTIPLE IDENTITIES, LANGUAGE USE AND LANGUAGE ATTITUDES IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND AFRO-ATLANTIC 1 Apologies in English in Ghana 13 Jemima Asabea Anderson 2 “Andastan mi no man”: Removing language barriers in Jamaica’s legal system 33 Kadian Walters 3 Adjectives in Twi/English codeswitching 43 Millicent Akosua Quarcoo and Amma Abrafi Adjei 4 Lexical borrowing in Ghanaian Student Pidgin – The case of Akan 55 loan words and loan translations Kwaku O. A. Osei-Tutu 5 Language contact in bimodal bilinguals: What about the Caribbean? 69 Melissa Angus Baboun MULTIPLE IDENTITIES, LITERATURE, ECOLOGY AND TRAUMA IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND AFRO-ATLANTIC 6 Shake Keane’s volcanic ecopoetics 83 Mark Andrews 7 Mirada al mar: relaciones del individuo caribeño con el espacio oceánico 95 en “Encancaranublado” de Ana Lydia Vega y “Un niño se ha perdido en el mar” de Néstor Rodríguez Escudero Yarelmi Iglesias Vázquez 8 Coping with shock: The consequences of traumatic events in Condé’s 105 Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat? and Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light Jo. Robles Lugo 9 The friction between the individual and the social in selected works of 113 two Ghanaian Writers – Mohammed Naseehu Ali and Ayi Kwei Armah Kofi Darkoh-Ankrah 10 Trauma and memory in Frances Ann-Solomon’s What My 127 Mother Told Me Norma Liz Rodríguez-Santiago MULTIPLE IDENTITIES AND LANGUAGE IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND AFRO-ATLANTIC 11 Un análisis sociofonético del alófono fricativo labiodental sonoro [v] en 139 el español de Puerto Rico Adriana Mulero Claudio, Nicolás Ortiz Youngblood y Omar Oduardo-Sierra 12 After the ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’: St. Kitts English Creole and the birth of 155 Pitcairn/Norfolk (Pitkern/Norf’k) English Creole Brenda L. Domínguez-Rosado 13 Phonological change in Guyanese: Linguistic idealization 167 vs. cultural evolution Alim Hosein 14 La jerga de la comunidad homosexual de Puerto Rico 179 Anthony Díaz Vázquez 15 The vocabulary of Ghanaian Student Pidgin: A preliminary survey 191 Kwaku O. A. Osei-Tutu MULTIPLE IDENTITIES AND LITERATURE IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND AFRO-ATLANTIC 16 Spirit in the dark: John Robert Lee’s The Coming of Org 205 Nagueyalti Warren 17 What my mother (never) told me: Child-Switching and other-mothering 211 in Patricia Powell’s Me Dying Trial Raúl J. Vázquez Vélez 18 Este mar es un desierto: la palabra como mecanismo de supervivencia en 217 tres obras de Eduardo Lalo Lenna Garay Rodríguez 19 How to copulate with impotent words and birth silence as agency: Marlene 231 Nourbese Philip’s Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence Dannabang Kuwabong 20 Video games as narrative engine: Can video games create narrative as 245 profound as that of literature? Luis A. Sánchez Galán MULTIPLE IDENTITIES AND CULTURE IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND AFRO-ATLANTIC 21 The West African origins of the Caribbean banjo 253 Robert W. Nicholls 22 Assessing the ineffable: Thinking about learning outcomes and theological 261 studies in the Caribbean Anna Kasafi Perkins 23 A critical discourse analysis of some headlines from newspapers in 271 Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Jamaica, the United States and St. Croix on the Virgin Islands Fountain Valley Massacre of 1972 Alma Simounet 24 Representation and invisibility of blackness in Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo 289 Día newspaper Juan S. Sepulveda Figuereo 25 Caribbean cultural studies: 21st century paradigms for university-level 299 heritage education and arts legacy programs Chenzira Davis Kahina MULTIPLE IDENTITIES, LITERATURE, ETHNICITY AND GENDER IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND AFRO-ATLANTIC 26 ‘A young woman’s voice does not break; it grows firmer’: A critical 305 Reading of Ama Ata Aidoo’s After the Ceremonies: New and Selected Poems Helen Yitah 27 The passion of resistance: language, racism and counter-hegemony 321 in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem Raúl J. Vázquez Vélez 28 Race relations in Earl Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance: Can 331 masculinity subvert ethnicity? Tyrone Ali 29 The black subject as aesthetic object in two travel narratives of the 339 West Indies Nemesio Gil 30 Remembering the suttee: Women fleeing death by immolation in Lakshmi 347 Persaud’s Raise the Lanterns High Kevin George Kelly MULTIPLE IDENTITIES, HISTORY AND POLITICS IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND AFRO-ATLANTIC 31 El Atlántico, el caribe y Cristobal Colón 365 Wilfredo A. Geigel 32Divestiture in the Caribbean political autobiography: In the Midst of it 377 by ANR Robinson Karen Sanderson Cole 33Traditional fishing folk’s knowledge on Costa Rica’s southern Caribbean 391 coast: A critical component in a formula for lionfish reduction María Suárez Toro 34The detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay: Safe, humane, legal, 407 and transparent? Don E. Walicek ABOUT THE EDITORS 417 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 Prof. Dr. Robert Dupey (Puerto Rico)
Islands in Between 