Envisioning the Greater Caribbean: Transgressing Geographical and Disciplinary Boundaries

Curaçao/Puerto Rico 2015, Volume 2

Afro-Costa Rican Literature: Quince Duncan and Anacristina Rossi

1. Nagueyalti Warren, "Re-memory as resistance in Quince Duncan’s A message from Rosa" (p. 13)

2. Keith Cartwright and Virginia Stewart, "Centroamerican messages, multiple voicings, and Afrorealist musication in Quince Duncan’s A message from Rosa" (p. 21)

3. Dolores Flores-Silva, “NI KU TU” Yanga: the sound of the drum announcing love, cultural 25 integration and abolition of slavery in Yangaland, Veracruz"

4. Cherie Meacham, "Heeding nature’s call: re-visiting testimonial strategies in Anacristina Rossi’s La loca de Gandoca" (p. 33)

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Literature and Gender in the Greater Caribbean

5. Aisha T. Spencer, "Unveiling shrouded sites: reconstructing female identity and experience through spaces of interiority in Jamaica Kincaid’s At the bottom of the river" (p. 43)

6. Nereida Prado, "Opal Palmer Adisa’s It begins with tears as a spiritual feminist healing narrative" (p. 57) 

7. Ilsa López-Vallés, "Comparative analysis of Gloria Escoffery’s and Lelawattee Manoo- Rahming’s poetry" (p. 65)

8. Gentian Miller, "Sexism and misogyny in Caribbean literature" (p. 75)

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Literature in the Greater Caribbean

9. Mark Andrews, "Aquapoetics and environmental depredation in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Biblique des derniers gestes" (p. 85)

10. Michael Sharp, "Restoring Africa to the Caribbean: Achilles’ journey in Derek Walcott’s Omeros" (p. 95)

11. Kevin Kelly-Cooke, "The intersection of memory and history: memories of physical and sexual violence in Ramabai Espinet’s The swinging bridge." (p. 101)

12. Willem Bant, “¿A merced de quien hemos quedado?” El conflicto armado colombiano: una mirada crítica a través de tres novelas contemporáneas (1998-2013)" (p. 111)

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Calypso and Performance in the Greater Caribbean

13. Robert W. Nicholls, "Old world influences on Afro-Creole masquerades in the Eastern Caribbean" (p. 119)

14. Everard Phillips, "Mechanisms of call and response in the calypso art form as mechanisms of conflict transformation" (p. 125)

15. Meagan Sylvester, "Breaking the rules at carnival time: narratives of resistance in Trinidad’s Carnival music" (p. 141) 

16. Gerardo E. Meza Sandoval, "Del griot a las nuevas producciones limonenses" (P. 151) 

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Culture and Afro-Caribbean Identity in Costa Rica

17. Karla Araya Araya, "Gender, discourses of respectability and the issue of Afro-Costa Rican citizenship in the journalistic work of Dolores Joseph Montout (1900-1950)" (p. 163)

18. Leonora Spencer, "Identidad cultural y derechos humanos de las mujeres afrodescendientes de Costa Rica" (p. 175)

19. Ann Albuyeh, "Afro-Costa Ricans and the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent" (p. 189)

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Culture, Identity, Politics and Education in the Greater Caribbean

20. Chenzira Davis Kahina, "Remembering 20th century militant lyricism and feminine empowerment 201 in Suzanne Césaire’s “The great camouflage”

21. Humphrey A. Regis, "Carmwac, massahianism and Caribbean creolism" (p. 211) 

22. Elizabeth Orfson Offei, "Being and doing us: a community of practice study of the Upper West Students’ Union of the University of Education, Ghana" (p. 221)

23. June Wheatley and Anna Kasafi Perkins, "A quality assurance model for evaluating franchised programmes: the case of UWI, Mona, Jamaica" (p. 235)

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Culture and Politics in the Virgin Islands and the Puerto Rican Diaspora

24. Susana C. Dejesús, "On speaking Crucian, the language of St. Croix, and the impact of Hip Hop" (p. 249) 

25. Jo Anne Harris, "The paradox of Anglo-Irish identity in the Danish West Indies" (p. 271) 

26. Dale Francis, "Efforts to convert United States Virgin Islands colonialism to democracy" (p. 277) 

27. Alma Simounet, "La diáspora latina en los Estados Unidos de América: un acercamiento desde el análisis crítico del discurso a la obra poética de algunos poetas chicanos y neorriqueños" (p. 285)

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Language Survival and Maintenance in the Greater Caribbean

28. Patrick-André Mather, "Instrumental and awareness-raising programs in Haiti and Guadeloupe" (p. 301) 

29. Petra E. Avillan-Leon, "The perception of risk: an element which can influence decisions in relation to endangered or threatened languages" (p. 307)

30. Kerri-Ann Haynes-Knight, Keisha Evans, and Tracy Winters-Evans, "Wuh Allsopp tink she talking ‘bout? Bajan vs Standard English as mother tongue" (p. 311)

31. Janice Jules, "‘Dis language is mine’ – the link between language and cultural identity: a case study of the preservation of Bajan in Atlanta, Georgia" (p. 321)

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Spanish in the Greater Caribbean

32. Ramón E. Padilla-Reyes, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, and Melvin González-Rivera, "Extremeness and gradability in Puerto Rican Spanish" (p. 331) 

33. Miriam Borrero, Melvin González Rivera, and Javier Gutiérrez Rexach, "Apuntes sobre la distinción tan/más en el español puertorriqueño" (p. 347) 

34. Dorian N. González Bonilla, "Diferencias por razón de sexo en la producción de líquidas en niños puertorriqueños de entre 3 y 4 años" (p. 355)

35. Brenda L. Domínguez Rosado, "Tú, vos, usted, or you? The curious case of differences in the use of second person pronouns in Costa Rican Spanish, Puerto Rican Spanish, and English" (p. 367)

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Language, Research and Society in the Greater Caribbean

36 Micah Corum, "Fear and loathing in the Afro-Atlantic: on metaphor and metonymy in concept construction and the creole lexicon" (p. 377)

37. Sally J. Delgado, "Creative license or linguistic data: why we can (and should) use literary representations of Caribbean speech in linguistic research" (p. 391)

38. Melissa Angus Baboun, "Historical account of deaf education in Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and Tobago and its impact on these deaf communities" (p. 397)

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