Creolization and Commonalities:
Transgressing Neocolonial Boundaries in the Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Caribbean and the Rest of the African Diaspora

Transgressing Gender and spatial boundaries in literature

1. Chidi T. Maduka, "The artist as griot: two knives in the widow’s house" (p. 15)
2. Fay White, "Naughty and nude: interrogating dissident female sexuality in The autobiography of my mother and Tongues on fire: Caribbean lesbian lives and stories" (p. 29)
3. Mark Andrews, "In the eye of the storm: Erzulie’s place in Caribbean ecopoetics" (p. 37)
4. Cherie Meacham, "Spatial constructs of loss and recuperation in Marie-Elena John’s Unburnable" (p. 47)
5. Isabel Guzzardo, "Women’s policed bodies and sexual expression: Fanon’s oversights in Claude McKay’s Banana Bottom" (p. 55 )

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Transgressing Boundaries in Linguistics

6. Kwaku Osei-Tutu & Micah Corum, "Metonymic reasoning in Ghanaian Student Pidgin: a focus on noun to verb conversions" (p. 67)
7. Janet Andrews, "Emerging sign languages: evidence from the Caribbean" (p. 77)
8. Melvin González-Rivera, "The Spanish gerund in Puerto-Crucian" (p. 85)
9. Adanma K. Graham, "The fine structure of the nominal in Tobagonian Creole" (p. 101)
10. Marta Viada Bellido de Luna, "El español boricua visto como lengua de contacto" (p. 111)
11. Marisol Joseph-Haynes, "Attitudes towards Limonese Creole" (p. 121)

 

Transgressing Boundaries in language, culture and society

12. César Solá-García, "Slavery and culture in Puerto Rico: the elusive ethnic boundaries of West African slaves, 1518-1873" (p. 129)
13. Elizabeth Rezende, "John Messer: the entrepreneurship of a free colored captain of Frederiksted, 1750-1819" (p. 139)
14. Don E. Walicek, "Freedom for the emancipated: August 1, 1838 in the British Caribbean" (p. 151)
15. Lara Caride Alonso, "Un paso entre la literatura y la historia: biografía de un cimarrón de Miguel Barnet" (p. 163)
16. Coreen Jacobs, "Hip-hop, dancehall and reggae gospel in the pentecostal movement – a new religious culture" (p. 179)
17. Carolyn Walcott, "Whither Caribbean integration: reasoning the political economy of the Caribbean region post 1945" (p. 185)
18. Gabriel J. Jiménez, "Neocolonialism and development: literature and land use practices in the Caribbean" (p. 193)

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Transgressing Canonical Boundaries in Literature

19. Gentian Miller, "The Carib bone-flute music in Palace of the peacock" (p. 205)
20. Nereida Prado, "Daemons and furies in Wilson Harris’s The four banks of the river of space" (p. 215)
21. Maritza V. Cardona Ortiz, "Wilson Harris: magical realism, myth and resistance to colonization" (p. 221)
22. Nagueyalti Warren, "The sacred votive in Derek Walcott’s poetry" (p. 227)

23. María del Carmen Quintero, "Two birds of a feather ebb and flow together: Kamau Brathwaite’s tidalectics in Derek Walcott’s Omeros" (p. 233)
24. Francisco Mojica, "Not ready for Africa" (p. 241)

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Transgressing Boundaries in Language and Identity

25. Eva de Lourdes Edwards, "Irish identity and piratical resistance in the Caribbean" (p. 247)
26. Jo Anne Harris, "Pirating politics: when the Irish ruled Montserrat" (p. 255)
27. Sally J. Delgado, "The myth of little England: exploring the formative context of Barbadian language and identity" (p. 265)
28. Ana M. Fabián, "The importance of a transdisciplinary approach and the use of oral history for the study of migratory peoples: following the trail from Vieques to St. Croix" (p. 275)
29. Alma Simounet, "A plan for the study of otherness, language maintenance and notions and acts of identity among Puerto Rican migrants to St. Croix" (p. 281)
30. Wilfredo A. Geigel, "St. Croix, Vieques and Puerto Rico" (p. 287)
31. Chenzira Davis Kahina, "Ay ay: Diasporan Indigenous Afrakan heritage in St. Croix & our Caribbean" (p. 395)
 

Transgressing Boundaries in Language Planning, Policy and Education

32. Pamela Rose & Rajkumar Sookraj, "A preliminary survey of undergraduates’ perceptions of English language needs at a university in Guyana" (p. 309) 
33. Janice E. Jules, "Separate or inseparable: measuring listening and speaking proficiency in teaching English as a second language" (p. 325)
34. Melvin González Rivera & Luis A. Ortiz López, "Spanish and English in Puerto Rico" (p. 337)
35. Marta Viada Bellido de Luna, "The impact of Freirian theory and popular education on ESL education in the Caribbean (p. 347)

36. Gabriel E. Mejía González, "Should we fear English? A study of resistance towards globalization through language" (p. 355)

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Transgressing Boundaries in Travel Writing About the Caribbean

37. José G. Rigau-Pérez, "An editor’s view of Edward Bliss Emerson’s trans-national journal: Danish West Indies, Puerto Rico and New England, 1831-1834" (p. 363)
38. Raúl Mayo-Santana, "Narrative anticipation of American exceptionalism in Edward Bliss Emerson’s Caribbean journal (p. 371)
39. Silvia E. Rabionet, "Edward Bliss Emerson: the blazing star of a complex constellation" (p. 375)
40. Annette B. Ramírez de Arellano, "Edward B. Emerson and slavery" (p. 393)
41. Alma Simounet, "The analysis of the rhetoric of othering in E.B. Emerson’s Caribbean journal of 1831-1832: the good, the bad, and the ugly" (p. 399)