2018, Volume 2: Breaking Down Binaries: Tidal Shifts in the study of the languages, literatures and cultures of the Greater Caribbean and beyond
Complete Citation:
Faraclas, Nicholas, Ronald Severing, Christa Weijer, Elisabeth Echteld, Wim Rutgers & Sally Delgado (Eds.) (2018). Breaking Down Binaries: Tidal Shifts in the study of the languages, literatures and cultures of the Greater Caribbean and beyond. Proceedings of the ECICC, Curaçao 2017, Volume 2, ISBN 978-99904-4-061-4. Curaçao/Puerto Rico: University of Curaçao, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, 394 pp.
TIDAL SHIFTS IN THE STUDY OF LITERATURE AND POLITICS IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 1 Kamau Brathwaite’s “stone” for Mikey Smith 13 Michael Sharp 2 Mythbusting maritime fiction 19 Sally J. Delgado 3 Colonization, culture and pan-Africanism in the poems of Kofi Awoonor 35 Alfred Kwami Teni 4 The Rastafarian: from pariah to hero in Jamaican literary discourse 39 from the 1950s to the 1980s Aart G. Broek 5 An ecocritcal reading of Niyi Osundare’s poetry 49 Charity Aboagye TIDAL SHIFTS IN THE STUDY OF MUSIC, DANCE, ART AND FILM IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 6 Blood clot, ras cloth and bun bow cloth: Lovindeer takes on 63 female bodily taboos in Jamaica Anna Kasafi Perkins 7 Afro-Caribbean dance and cultural connections in the 79 Spanish Eastern and Western Caribbean Ann Albuyeh 8 Elizabeth Magali Robles y la acción como condición 95 Lydia Platón 9 Toward a gendered understanding of Calypso music 107 Meagan Sylvester 10 Contrasting film techniques in Maria Govan’s Rain and 113 Ernesto Daranas’ Conducta Nicole Díaz Morell TIDAL SHIFTS IN THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 11 The visual and verbal representations of Mami Wata billboards 123 in Ghana Frances S. Rivera Cornier 12 Culturation and language in Guyana 141 Alim Hossein 13 A study of the negative in Grenadian French lexifier Creole 151 Marguerite-Joan Joseph 14 A sociolinguistic study of language variation in the English spoken 159 in Ghana: a case study of the schwa vowel Charles Djorbua TIDAL SHIFTS IN THE STUDY OF IDENTITIY AND CULTURE IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 15 La raza: the search for identity 169 Wilfredo A. Geigel and Alma Simounet-Geigel 16 La identidad lingüística puertorriqueña en los billboards 179 de San Juan y Carolina Gabriel E. Suárez 17 Humor and optimism following the 2017 hurricane disasters 191 in Dominica and Puerto Rico Ilsa López-Vallés 18 A critical analysis of public discourse after hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico 197 Alexandra N. Mihailovic Court and Luis A. Sanchez Galan TIDAL SHIFTS IN THE STUDY OF EDUCATION IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 19 Lecturers’ perceptions of the efficacy of the integration of communicative 207 strategies and instructional technologies in foreign language instruction Janice Jules 20 Spelling acquisition at the University of Guyana: an error analysis 219 Penelope Montfort 21 On being incarcerated in Puerto Rico: employing an autobiographical 231 pedagogy Cynthia Pittmann 22 A preliminary account of a transformative pedagogical model: 237 using historical fiction in the Caribbean Jeffrey O’Field and Patrick Oneill López Negrón TIDAL SHIFTS IN THE STUDY OF THE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 23 The language of sugar cane and rum in Martinique 245 Hélène Zamor 24 Barbados and its “colony” South Carolina: historical, cultural, 251 and linguistic connections Brenda L. Domínguez Rosado 25 The linguistic and social history of food vocabulary in Trinidad 261 and Tobago English lexifier Creoles Iris Hewitt-Bradshaw 26 Ghana ‘pona’ yam: a potential product for geographical indication status 273 Gervase Kuuwaabong TIDAL SHIFTS IN THE STUDY OF SOCIETY AND HISTORY IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 27 Reconstructing Saint Lucian boyhood: a transnational approach 291 Janice Cools 28 Views of the descendants of the enslaved in Martinique on 301 the question of reparations Roseline Armange 29 The Danish West Indies: paternalism and poverty 315 Elizabeth Rezende 30 The Caribbean in world history: Carribean impacts on global 325 struggles for freedom Bernard Bierlich TIDAL SHIFTS IN THE STUDY OF LITERATURE IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 31 The anachronisms of exile: counter-narrative, memory, time and 339 remembrance in George Lamming’s In the castle of my skin Raúl Javier Vázquez Vélez 32 The importance of ghosts in Edgar Mittelholtzer’s My bones and 349 my flute and Wilson Harris’ Palace of the peacock Maritza V. Cardona Ortiz 33 The colonial gaze and the sex scenes in Amma Darko’s 357 Beyond the horizon Kofi Darkoh-Ankrah 34 Lenguaje y figura: estudio de personajes inusuales en el libro 365 Mundo cruel del escritor puertorriqueño Luis Negrón Anissa M. Ortega Díaz and Jomayra Pimentel Rodríguez 35 Canefields, golden mongooses, and faceless men: trauma theory 373 and The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao Klaas Bant ABOUT THE EDITORS 385 ABOUT THE AUTHORS 386 ABOUT THE PAINTER ABOUT THE COVER ARTIST Wilson Garcia (Netherlands Prof. Dr. Nicholas Faraclas (Puerto Rico) Prof. Dr. Ronald Severing (Curaçao) Drs. Christa Weijer (Curaça Dr. Elisabeth Echteld (Curaçao) Prof. Dr. Wim Rutgers Dr. Sally J. Delgado (Puerto Rico)
Islands in Between 