Positive Interferences:
Unsettling resonances in the study of the languages,
literatures and cultures of the Greater Caribbean and beyond

Unsettling Resonances in language and discourse in the Greater Caribbean and beyond

1. Ian Hancock, "A short story in three Creoles" (p. 13)
2. Ramón E. Padilla-Reyes, "Lexical innovation in Puerto Rican Spanish: the intensional meaning of bien and más (p. 21)
3. Melissa Angus Baboun, "Analysis of Jamaican and Trinidadian print media discourse concerning Deafness" (p. 37)
4. Carolyn Walcott, "Not my Haiti: western media framing and immigrant renarrating of Haiti" (p. 49)
5. José J. Aponte Andújar, "An archeology of patriarchal objectification in strip club publicity in Puerto Rico, utilizing a critique of the dominant discourses on sexuality" (p. 59)
6. Anthony Díaz Vázquez, "Representación de la víctima de violencia de género sobre la mujer en casos de asesinatos en la prensa de Puerto Rico" (p. 73)
7. Cynthia Pittmann, "Teaching marginalized populations with graphic literature: folding the edges toward the center" (p. 87)

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Unsettling Resonances in the literature of the Greater Caribbean and Beyond​​

8. Nicola C. Hunte, "Imagining Barbados: constructing a Barbadian identity through fiction" (p. 95)
9. Michelle Ramos Rodríguez, "Psychosocial cyclones: a dystopic and altruistic reading of Gisèle Pineau’s Macadam dreams" (p. 111)
10. Aart G. Broek, "Lovelace’s early stand against Naipaul: yard literature about crazy idealism, corruption, dumb luck, and hope against all odds" (p. 123)
11. Maritza V. Cardona Ortiz, "Hoodoo and oral tradition in Erna Brodber’s Louisiana" (p. 135)
12. Catilia Romero Ramírez, "Embodying and understanding trauma in Fred D’Aguiar’s The longest memory" (p. 145)
 

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Unsettling Resonances in language and education in the Greater Caribbean and Beyond

13. Ray Chatterpaul and Pamela Rose, "The implementation of reforms in Guyanese English language classrooms: lessons for the future" (p. 153)
14. Michelle Lewis and Pamela Rose, "Teachers’ perception of a literacy hour program in Guyana" (p. 167) 
15. Pamela Rose, "Teachers’ practices and learners’ preferences in writing classes in Guyana" (p. 177)
16. Korah L. Belgrave, “The company it keeps”: the collocational competence of Barbadian university level second dialect (D2) English learners" (p. 193)
17. Jonathan Alan Avilés Reyes and Araceli Berríos, "The lack of culturally relevant materials in Puerto Rican classrooms" (p. 209)
18. Kevin J. Méndez Muñiz, "How an EFL approach could rescue English language education in Puerto Rico" (p. 215)

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Unsettling Resonances in literature and political mobilization in the Greater Caribbean and beyond

19. Dannabang Kuwabong, "Performing the unfinished history of emancipation in the US Virgin Islands with Richard A. Schrader Sr.’s 1878 Queen Mary and dem" (p. 223)

20. Michael Sharp, "‘Latitudes of anguish’: the poetry of Martin Carter" (p. 239)
21. Abdul Rashid Boye, "The poetic self in autobiography: a stylistic study of My first coup d’etat and Dreams from my father" (p. 249)

22. Nagueyalti Warren, "Grandfathers of the Nuyorican Poetry Movement" (p. 263)
23. Jacqueline Jiang, “No nació pa’ yugo”: nationalism, colonialism, and oppression in the writing of la generación del 50" (p. 271)

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Unsettling Resonances in culture and history in the Greater Caribbean and beyond

24. Eva de Lourdes Edwards, "Indigenous Caribbean sailing in pre-Columbian times" (p. 281)

25.Melinda Maxwell, "Georgia connections: possible Caribbean indigenous presence and influence on the Native American confederacies of the southeastern United States" (p. 289)
26. Humphrey A. Regis, "Academics-agnostic elaboration: CARMWAC among Caricommoners" (p. 297)
27. Kevin G. Kelly-Cooke, "Spiritism in Puerto Rico: prismatic intersections of European, African, and Indigenous spiritual beliefs (p. 313)

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Unsettling Resonances in music in the Greater Caribbean and beyond

28. Anna Kasafi Perkins, "Keeping it clean?: Critical media literacy, morality and Jamaican Dancehall" (p. 327)
29. Kayleen Justus, "‘We kinda music’ is not ‘We ting’: challenging musical formulas in Trinidad’s Panorama Competition" (p. 345)
30. Janine Tiffe, "New Horizons – Florida style: a musical ethnography of Pans de León in Tallahassee, Florida, USA (p. 357)
31. Illianiz Román Ortiz, "Jammin’ Elegguá: jazz, women and Santería in Cuba" (p. 365)
 

Unsettling Resonances in literature and gender in the Greater Caribbean and beyond

32. Essah Díaz, "Spiritual chronicles of Mami Wata in Maryse Condé’s Who slashed Celanire’s throat?" (p. 385)
33. Frances’Lee González Rosado, "The feminine and insularity in J. M. Synge’s “Riders to the sea”, Derek Walcott’s “The sea at Dauphin” and the Groundwork Theatre Company’s “The fallen angel and the devil concubine” (p. 393)
34. Ari Alannah Hernandez, "Female effacement in a gendered linguistic encounter in “The tall shadow” by Meiling Jin" (p. 401)
35. Raúl Javier Vázquez Vélez, "The rise and fall of “King” Alfred: fatherhood and unmanning in Jamaica Kincaid’s The autobiography of my mother" (p. 415)
36. Sherean M. Shehada Hader, "Challenging masculine stereotypes in Ryhaan Shah’s A death in the family" (p. 429)