2019, Volume 2: Positive Interferences: Unsettling Resonances 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 and Sally Delgado (Eds.) (2019). Positive Interferences: Unsettling resonances in the study of the languages, literatures and cultures of the Greater Caribbean and beyond. Proceedings of the ECICC, Aruba 2018. Volume 2, ISBN 978-99904-4-062-1. Curaçao/Puerto Rico: University of Curaçao, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras; 444 pp.
UNSETTLING RESONANCES IN LANGUAGE AND DISCOURSE IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 1 A short story in three Creoles 13 Ian Hancock 2 Lexical innovation in Puerto Rican Spanish: the intensional meaning 21 of bien and más Ramón E. Padilla-Reyes 3 Analysis of Jamaican and Trinidadian print media discourse concerning 37 Deafness Melissa Angus Baboun 4 Not my Haiti: western media framing and immigrant renarrating of Haiti 49 Carolyn Walcott 5 An archeology of patriarchal objectification in strip club publicity 59 in Puerto Rico, utilizing a critique of the dominant discourses on sexuality José J. Aponte Andújar 6 Representación de la víctima de violencia de género sobre la mujer en casos 73 de asesinatos en la prensa de Puerto Rico Anthony Díaz Vázquez 7 Teaching marginalized populations with graphic literature: folding the edges 87 toward the center Cynthia Pittmann UNSETTLING RESONANCES IN THE LITERATURES OF THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 8 Imagining Barbados: constructing a Barbadian identity through fiction 95 Nicola C. Hunte 9 Psychosocial cyclones: a dystopic and altruistic reading of 111 Gisèle Pineau’s Macadam dreams Michelle Ramos Rodríguez 10 Lovelace’s early stand against Naipaul: yard literature about crazy idealism, 123 corruption, dumb luck, and hope against all odds Aart G. Broek 11 Hoodoo and oral tradition in Erna Brodber’s Louisiana 135 Maritza V. Cardona Ortiz 12 Embodying and understanding trauma in Fred D’Aguiar’s The longest memory 145 Catilia Romero Ramírez UNSETTLING RESONANCES IN LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 13 The implementation of reforms in Guyanese English language classrooms: 153 lessons for the future Ray Chatterpaul and Pamela Rose 14 Teachers’ perception of a literacy hour program in Guyana 167 Michelle Lewis and Pamela Rose 15 Teachers’ practices and learners’ preferences in writing classes in Guyana 177 Pamela Rose 16 “The company it keeps”: the collocational competence of Barbadian 193 university level second dialect (D2) English learners Korah L. Belgrave 17 The lack of culturally relevant materials in Puerto Rican classrooms 209 Jonathan Alan Avilés Reyes and Araceli Berríos 18 How an EFL approach could rescue English language education 215 in Puerto Rico Kevin J. Méndez Muñiz UNSETTLING RESONANCES IN LITERATURE AND POLITICAL MOBILIZATION IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 19 Performing the unfinished history of emancipation in the US Virgin Islands 223 with Richard A. Schrader Sr.’s 1878 Queen Mary and dem Dannabang Kuwabong 20 ‘Latitudes of anguish’: the poetry of Martin Carter 239 Michael Sharp 21 The poetic self in autobiography: a stylistic study of My first coup d’etat 249 and Dreams from my father Abdul Rashid Boye 22 Grandfathers of the Nuyorican Poetry Movement 263 Nagueyalti Warren 23 “No nació pa’ yugo”: nationalism, colonialism, and oppression in 271 the writing of la generación del 50 Jacqueline Jiang UNSETTLING RESONANCES IN CULTURE AND HISTORY IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 24 Indigenous Caribbean sailing in pre-Columbian times 281 Eva de Lourdes Edwards 25 Georgia connections: possible Caribbean indigenous presence and influence 289 on the Native American confederacies of the southeastern United States Melinda Maxwell 26 Academics-agnostic elaboration: CARMWAC among Caricommoners 297 Humphrey A. Regis 27 Spiritism in Puerto Rico: prismatic intersections of European, African, 313 and Indigenous spiritual beliefs Kevin G. Kelly-Cooke UNSETTLING RESONANCES IN MUSIC IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 28 Keeping it clean?: Critical media literacy, morality and Jamaican Dancehall 327 Anna Kasafi Perkins 29 ‘We kinda music’ is not ‘We ting’: challenging musical formulas in 345 Trinidad’s Panorama Competition Kayleen Justus 30 New Horizons – Florida style: a musical ethnography of Pans de León 357 in Tallahassee, Florida, USA Janine Tiffe 31 Jammin’ Elegguá: jazz, women and Santería in Cuba 365 Illianiz Román Ortiz UNSETTLING RESONANCES IN LITERATURE AND GENDER IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 32 Spiritual chronicles of Mami Wata in Maryse Condé’s Who slashed 385 Celanire’s throat? Essah Díaz 33 The feminine and insularity in J. M. Synge’s “Riders to the sea”, 393 Derek Walcott’s “The sea at Dauphin” and the Groundwork Theatre Company’s “The fallen angel and the devil concubine” Frances’Lee González Rosado 34 Female effacement in a gendered linguistic encounter in “The tall shadow” 401 by Meiling Jin Ari Alannah Hernandez 35 The rise and fall of “King” Alfred: fatherhood and unmanning in 415 Jamaica Kincaid’s The autobiography of my mother Raúl Javier Vázquez Vélez 36 Challenging masculine stereotypes in Ryhaan Shah’s A death in the family 429 Sherean M. Shehada Hader ABOUT THE EDITORS 435 ABOUT THE AUTHORS 436 ABOUT THE COVER ARTIST 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) Angiolina (Giolina) Henriquez (Aruba)
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