Celebrating Multiple Identities: Opting out of neocolonial monolingualism, monoculturalism and mono-identification in the Greater Caribbean

Curaçao 2016, Volume 2

Multiple identities, language use and language attitudes in the Greater Caribbean and Afro-Atlantic

1. Jemima Asabea Anderson, Apologies in English in Ghana (p. 13).

2. Kadian Walters, “Andastan mi no man”: Removing language barriers in Jamaica’s legal system (p. 33)

3. Millicent Akosua Quarcoo and Amma Abrafi Adjei, Adjectives in Twi/English codeswitching (p. 43)

4. Kwaku O. A. Osei-Tutu, Lexical borrowing in Ghanaian Student Pidgin – The case of Akan loan words and loan translations (p. 55)

5. Melissa Angus Baboun, Language contact in bimodal bilinguals: What about the Caribbean? (p. 69)

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Multiple identities, literature, ecology and trauma in the Greater Caribbean and Afro-Atlantic

6. Mark Andrews, Shake Keane’s volcanic ecopoetics (p. 83)

7. Yarelmi Iglesias Vázquez, Mirada al mar: relaciones del individuo caribeño con el espacio oceánico en “Encancaranublado” de Ana Lydia Vega y “Un niño se ha perdido en el mar” de Néstor Rodríguez Escudero (p. 95)

8. Jo. Robles Lugo, Coping with shock: The consequences of traumatic events in Condé’s Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat? and Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light (p. 105)

9. Kofi Darkoh-Ankrah, The friction between the individual and the social in selected works of two Ghanaian Writers – Mohammed Naseehu Ali and Ayi Kwei Armah (p. 113)

10. Norma Liz Rodríguez-Santiago, Trauma and memory in Frances Ann-Solomon’s What My Mother Told Me (p. 127)

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Multiple Identities and Languages in the Greater Caribbean and Afro-Atlantic

11. Adriana Mulero Claudio, Nicolás Ortiz Youngblood y Omar Oduardo-Sierra, Un análisis sociofonético del alófono fricativo labiodental sonoro [v] en el español de Puerto Rico (p. 139)

12. Brenda L. Domínguez-Rosado, After the ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’: St. Kitts English Creole and the birth of Pitcairn/Norfolk (Pitkern/Norf’k) English Creole (p. 155)

13. Alim Hosein, Phonological change in Guyanese: Linguistic idealization vs. cultural evolution (p. 167)

14. Anthony Díaz Vázquez, La jerga de la comunidad homosexual de Puerto Rico (p. 179)

15. Kwaku O. A. Osei-Tutu, The vocabulary of Ghanaian Student Pidgin: A preliminary survey (p. 191)

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Multiple Identities and Literature in the Greater Caribbean and Afro-Atlantic

16. Nagueyalti Warren, Spirit in the dark: John Robert Lee’s The Coming of Org (p. 205)

17. Raúl J. Vázquez Vélez, What my mother (never) told me: Child-Switching and other-mothering in Patricia Powell’s Me Dying Trial (p. 211)

18. Lenna Garay Rodríguez, Este mar es un desierto: la palabra como mecanismo de supervivencia en tres obras de Eduardo Lalo (p. 217)

19. Dannabang Kuwabong, How to copulate with impotent words and birth silence as agency: Marlene Nourbese Philip’s Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (p. 231)

20. Luis A. Sánchez Galán, Video games as narrative engine: Can video games create narrative as profound as that of literature? (p. 245)

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Multiple Identities and Culture in the Greater Caribbean and Afro-Atlantic

21. Robert W. Nicholls, The West African origins of the Caribbean banjo (p. 253)

22. Anna Kasafi Perkins, Assessing the ineffable: Thinking about learning outcomes and theological studies in the Caribbean (p. 261)

23. Alma Simounet, A critical discourse analysis of some headlines from newspapers in Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Jamaica, the United States and St. Croix on the Virgin Islands Fountain Valley Massacre of 1972 (p. 271)

24. Juan S. Sepulveda Figuereo, Representation and invisibility of blackness in Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo Día newspaper (p. 289)

25. Chenzira Davis Kahina, Caribbean cultural studies: 21st century paradigms for university-level heritage education and arts legacy programs (p. 299)

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Multiple Identities, Literature, Ethnicity and Gender in the Greater Caribbean and Afro-Atlantic

26. Helen Yitah, ‘A young woman’s voice does not break; it grows firmer’: A critical Reading of Ama Ata Aidoo’s After the Ceremonies: New and Selected Poems (p. 305)

27. Raúl J. Vázquez Vélez, The passion of resistance: language, racism and counter-hegemony in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem (p. 321)

28. Tyrone Ali, Race relations in Earl Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance: Can masculinity subvert ethnicity? (p. 331)

29. Nemesio Gil, The black subject as aesthetic object in two travel narratives of the West Indies (p. 339)

30. Kevin George Kelly, Remembering the suttee: Women fleeing death by immolation in Lakshmi Persaud’s Raise the Lanterns High (p. 347)

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Multiple Identities, History and Politics in the Greater Caribbean and Afro-Atlantic

31. Wilfredo A. Geigel, El Atlántico, el Caribe y Cristobal Colón (p. 365)

32. Karen Sanderson Cole, Divestiture in the Caribbean political autobiography: In the Midst of it by ANR Robinson (p. 377)

33. María Suárez Toro, Traditional fishing folk’s knowledge on Costa Rica’s southern Caribbean coast: A critical component in a formula for lionfish reduction (p. 391)

34. Don E. Walicek, The detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay: Safe, humane, legal, and transparent? (p. 407)