2020, Volume 2: Negotiating Crosswinds: Trans-linguality, Trans-culturality and Trans-identification in the Greater Caribbean
Complete Citation:
Nicholas Faraclas, Ronald Severing, Christa Weijer, Elisabeth Echteld and Wim Rut-gers (Eds.) (2020). Negotiating Crosswinds: Trans-linguality, Trans-culturality and Trans-identification in the Greater Caribbean. Proceedings of the ECICC 2019, no longer in Martinique, but postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic. Volume 2, ISBN 978-99904-4-066-9. Curaçao/Puerto Rico: University of Curaçao, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras; 406 pp.
INTERSECTIONS OF HISTORY AND TRANS-IDENTIFICATION IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 1 The returned Maroons of Trelawny Town 13 Michael Sivapragasam 2 Voyages from St. Thomas to Puerto Rico during the intra-American 25 slave trade Ann Albuyeh 3 Memories of unseen landscapes: Confederate migration and 41 Southern hybridity Jessica Adams 4 D. Hamilton Jackson and the Virgin Islands diaspora in Harlem in 1915 55 Elizabeth Rezende 5 Both freedom and slavery: race and golden age piracy 67 Jan Bant INTERSECTIONS OF EDUCATION, TRANS-CULTURALITY AND TRANS-LINGUALITY IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 6 Curating the virtual Caribbean: digital memory and cultural legacies 81 Jo Anne Harris 7 A comparative study on teacher perception of the use of an English 89 lexifier Creole as contributing to student failure on the CSEC English Language examination Nicole Ajodha and Tyrone Ali 8 The field dependence/independence cognitive construct: exploring 107 the relationship between ESL students’ cognitive styles and their performance in face-to-face and online learning activities Keisha Evans-Dixon and Leiba-Ann Ferreira 9 Integrating high-impact practices in a language teaching course 123 Pamela Rose INTERSECTIONS OF LITERATURE, PSYCHOLOGY AND TRANS-IDENTIFICATION IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 10 Ted Bundy and elements of mythology in Land of love and drowning 135 Nagueyalti Warren 11 Antisocial personality disorders in Myriam Warner-Vieyra’s Juletane 141 and Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea Dannabang Kuwabong and Alexandra M. Martínez-Cañavate Soltero 12 Beyond the vow: gender performativity in David Edgecombe’s 153 For better for worse Frances’Lee González Rosado 13 Nature as a catalyst for change in Patrick Chamoiseau’s novel 159 Slave old man and Jacob Ross’ short story “De laughin tree” Eugene Speakes 14 Spatial dramatic and performance texts in Djanet Sears’ Afrika Solo 167 Gabriel E. Suárez INTERSECTIONS OF DISCOURSE AND TRANS-LINGUALITY IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 15 The analysis of directives in Puerto Rican Spanish: thirty years later 177 Erika Marrero Pérez, Alma Simounet and Jean Cuevas 16 Preferencia sintáctica de alternancia de código en estudiantes universitarios 197 bilingües puertorriqueños Tiffany Rodríguez Cruz, Luis Daniel Acevedo Vélez, Alexandra Román Irizarry y Johanses N. Ríos Ghigliotty 17 La semántica y los anglicismos en el discurso puertorriqueño 209 Simón Campos y Abimelec Morales Rivera 18 The English and Spanish code switching of Puerto Ricans 219 and Porto Crucians Orville O. Villanueva Feliciano 19 Language choice and use in Ghanaian churches: a case study 227 of Tema Newtown Jacqueline Adjoa Amponsah INTERSECTIONS OF LITERATURE, MASCULINITIES AND TRANS-IDENTIFICATION IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 20 In praise of men making words: Kamau Brathwaite and Nicolás Guillén 241 Michael Sharp 21 Kamau Brathwaite’s search for identity in The arrivants 253 Glenda Moreno-Aponte 22 Christian doctrine, homosexuality, and trauma in H. Nigel Thomas’ 261 Return to Arcadia Agnes Sastre-Rivera 23 The dawning of a new age: healing masculinity in Patricia Powell’s 269 The fullness of everything Ari Alannah Hernandez 24The totemic page: Ogotemmêli’s thought in the work of 279 Kamau Brathwaite Sharif El Gammal-Ortiz INTERSECTIONS OF POLITICS, POPULAR CULTURE AND TRANS-CULTURALITY IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 25 Code-switching in #Rickyrenuncia: the Facebook live of Rosselló’s 297 resignation message Sofía Teresa Lebrón Sepúlveda 26 La Gran Marcha del Pueblo de Puerto Rico: content and intertextuality 305 in Puerto Rican protest signage Miguel A. de Jesús Colón 27 Foresighting, ethics and the futures: Vision 2030 and a standard for 317 public behaviour in Jamaica Anna Kasafi Perkins 28 Léxico transcaribeño en el reggaetón como evidencia de contacto 329 lingüístico entre comunidades afrocaribeñas: el caso de gyal y yal Rubén Ramos Colón 29 Memorialising the Mighty Shadow: personal, collective and cultural 339 memory in Calypso Meagan Sylvester INTERSECTIONS OF LITERATURE, COLONIALITY AND TRANS-CULTURALITY IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND 30 Textos y contextos en Quíntuples, drama de Luis Rafael Sánchez (1984) 347 Gabriel E. Suárez 31 “The inevitable centre table”: colonial discourse in Marion Blythe’s 355 An American bride in Porto Rico Lynette Cintrón 32 Puerto Rican women enact transnationalism: the work of Aurora 367 Levins Morales, Rosario Morales, and María Fernández (A.K.A. “Mariposa”) Roberto C. Sánchez-Zayas 33 A Puerto Rican interpretation of Louise Bennett’s poems “Dry-Foot Bwoy”, 383 “Cuss Cuss” and “Likkle Twang” Jaydy Mir Sira 34 Decolonizing spirits: indigenous oral traditions in anthropology 387 and in Caribbean literature Kevin George Kelly ABOUT THE EDITORS 397 ABOUT THE AUTHORS 398 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 Ariadne Faries (Curaçao, 1968-2020)
Islands in Between 