In a Sea of Heteroglossia:
Pluri-Lingualism, Pluri-Culturalism, and Pluri-Identification in the Caribbean

I. PLURI-LINGUALISM: MULTIPLE LITERACIES

PLURI-LINGUALISM, LANGUAGE CONTACT AND LINGUISTICS
1. Ilia Aixa Madrazo, Migdalia Medina, Mervyn Alleyne, "Semantic diversity in the Caribbean: Interrogating the “Creole” concept" (p. 13)
2. Pier Angeli Le Compte, Lourdes González Cotto, Diana Ursulin,Susana C. DeJesús, Cándida González-López, Brenda L.Domínguez-Rosado, Micah Corum, Aida Vergne, Nicholas Faraclas, "African agency in the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles" (p. 37)
3. Susana DeJesús, "St. Croix: A pluri-Lingual and pluri-Cultural island" (p. 53)
4. Marie-France Patte, "Arawak vs. Lokono. What‟s in a name?" (p. 75)
5. Sally J. Delgado, "Conscious choice and constructed identities: A study of written codeswitching between Crucian and Standard English in St Croix" (p. 87)
6. Brenda L. Domínguez-Rosado, "The scientific significance and social responsibilities of linguistic fieldwork in the Northeastern Caribbean: The case of St. Croix" (p. 111)

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PLURI-LINGUALISM, LANGUAGE CONTACT AND EDUCATION
7. Coreen Jacobs-Chester, "Nursery school teachers‟ attitudes toward Guyanese Creole" (p. 123)
8. Stacy Denny, "The ABCs of teacher language proficiency" (p. 135)
9. Marie-Annick Gournet, "Towards real cultural dialogue in Caribbean education" (p. 153)
10. Coreen Jacobs-Chester, "The search for innovative approaches to help native speakers of Guyanese Creole master Standard English" (p. 165)
11. Regla Diago-Pinillos, "A new opportunity for development in the region: An Eastern Caribbean Postgraduate Studies Center" (p. 175)
 

II. PLURI-CULTURALISM: MULTIPLE HISTORICITIES
 

PLURI-CULTURALISM AND HISTORY
12. Santiago J. Ruiz, "Connections between the Eastern Caribbean and the Central American Caribbean Coast: The history and demographics of the Garifuna and otherAfrican and Afro-Indigenous descended peoples" (p. 181)
13. ChenziRa D. Kahina, "Queens of the Virgins: Ancestral visions in contemporary Virgin Islands folklore and drama" (p. 191)
14. Gentian Miller, "African religious survivals in death rituals" (p. 201)
15. Patricia Stephens, "The Spiritual Baptist Faith: Syncretic religion and cultural tradition in the Eastern Caribbean region" (p. 209)
16. Jo Anne Harris, "A voyage in the West Indies: John Augustine Waller‟s “familiar view of the West India Islands” (p. 217)
17. Elizabeth Rezende, "Water Gut as an Industrial Park of Christiansted, former Danish West Indies 1756-1813" (p. 227)

PLURI-CULTURALISM, LITERATURE, MUSIC AND EXPRESSION
18. Mark Andrews, "The poetic legacy of Daniel Thaly" (p. 237)
19. Wendell Villanueva, "Reconciling differences: Michael Anthony‟s Green Days by the River" (p. 245)
20. Gregory T. E. Richardson, "Rhythmic importation, linguistic adaptation and integration in Aruban music: An analysis of the place and development of Calypso and Socain Aruban society" (p. 253)
21. Meagan A. Sylvester, "Assessing the links between identity and soca music in the Trinidad and Tobago music industry" (p. 265)
22. ChenziRa D. Kahina, "The restoration of Bamboula: A St. Croix experience" (p. 273)
23. Marsha Hinds-Layne, "Purpose before money: Planning language festivals in the Caribbean" (p. 285)

III. PLURI-IDENTIFICATION: MULTIPLE SOLIDARITIES

PLURI-IDENTIFICATION, WOMEN, SPIRITUALITY, AND LITERATURE
24. Cherie Meacham, "Screaming silence: Testimony and trauma in Shani Mootoo‟s Cereus Blooms at Night" (p. 303)
25. Cynthia Pittmann, "Jamaica Kincaid: Image, manipulation and perception" (p. 311)
26. Kristin Cobos, "Obeah and cultural paradox in Annie John" (p. 319)
27. Keith Cartwright, "There‟s always the other side: Agency and authority in Creole initiation" (p. 325)
28. Samantha S. P. Mitchell, "Does a thread of magical realism pervade Roderick Walcott‟s Malfinis?" (p. 333)
29. Nereida Prado, "Bolom symbolism in Derek Walcott, Dionne Brand, and Robert Antoni" (p. 341)

PLURI-IDENTIFICATION, LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND EXPRESSION
30. Dannabang Kuwabong, "Poetics of intimate voices: Exploring identity politics in US Virgin Islands‟ poetry" (p. 351)
31. Melinda Maxwell-Gibb, "Survival, resistance and resurgence: Reclaiming our own "utterances"" (p. 369)
32. Tyrone Ali, "(Re)Visiting Dominica‟s past, (Ad)Venturing into her future: Interrogating identity formation in Marie-Elena John‟s Unburnable" (p. 377)
33. Martha Isaac, "Language variation as „verbal resourcefulness and aesthetic completeness‟: The sociolinguistics of Derek Walcott" (p. 391)
34. Korah Belgrave, "The power of the word – The evaluative functions of prefabricated language" (p. 403)