Anansi’s Defiant Webs:
Contact, Continuity, Convergence, and Complexity in the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the Greater Caribbean
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Curaçao/Puerto RIco 2011, Volume 2
CONTACT, CONTINUITY, CONVERGENCE, AND COMPLEXITY IN CARIBBEAN LANGUAGES
1. Ian Hancock, "A pan-Creole innovation?" (p. 13)
2. Micah Corum, "The come for construction in Crucian: new insights on the verb/preposition interface in Afro-Atlantic Languages" (p. 21)
3. Melvin González-Rivera, Ramón E. Padilla-Reyes, John Rueda Chaves, "Preposition-stranding under sluicing in Puerto Rican Spanish" (p. 27)
4. Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Melvin González-Rivera, "Negation, modification, and the syntax of Puerto Rican Spanish" (p. 47)
5. John Rueda Chaves, Lester Navas Escorcia, "Patrones sociolingüísticos en el Caribe colombiano: las fricativas sordas en el español de Baranquilla" (p. 59)
6. Ann Albuyeh, "Tracing African language and culture in Trinidad and Puerto Rico" (p. 79)
7. Sally J. Delgado, "A lexical comparison of Jamaican English and cant: exploring the influence of marginalized British Englishes in the Caribbean" (p. 93)
8. Aida Vergne, Marisol Joseph Haynes, Diana Ursulin Mopsus, Lourdes González Cotto, Cándida González López, Sally Delgado, Hannia Lao Meléndez, Darlene Albert, Dámarys Crespo, Neusa Rodríguez, Nicholas Faraclas, "Extending the socio-cultural matrix of creolization in the Caribbean and the rest of the Afro-Atlantic to include the Portuguese and Spanish-lexifier Creoles" (p. 107)
CONTACT, CONTINUITY, CONVERGENCE, AND COMPLEXITY IN CARIBBEAN EDUCATION AND SOCIETY
9. Charlene V. Wilkinson, "Meditation on a student's journal page" (p. 123)
10. Marsha Hinds-Layne, "Caribbean Standard English: „How to explain it nuh!‟" (p. 131)
11. Coreen Jacobs-Chester, "Language and globalization: cyberspace language in students' writing" (p. 139)
12. Martin Jones, "Challenges in teacher preparation for postcolonial transformation of Literature teaching" (p. 145)
13. Samantha S. P. Mitchell, "Empowerment through curriculum change: adapting the CSEC English Language Syllabus towards improved academic and social achievement of deaf students in the Caribbean" (p. 149)
14. Gillian Glean-Walker, "Stepping up to higher education: the role and effectiveness of continuing education and professional certificate courses in encouraging „laddering‟into main-stream higher education programmes" (p. 157)
15. Alma Simounet, "Unmasking the myth of Spanish language use in the United States: the diaspora from Latin America and the Hispanic Caribbean" (p. 169)
16. Don E. Walicek, "Christianity, literacy, and creolization in nineteenth-century Anguilla" (p. 181)
CONTACT, CONTINUITY, CONVERGENCE, AND COMPLEXITY IN CARIBBEAN LITERATURES
17. Tim Donovan, "The space of trauma: Wilson Harris' Jonestown" (p. 193)
18. Dannabang Kuwabong, "Of rebels, tricksters, and supernatural beings: toward a semiotics of myth performance in African Diasporic drama" (p. 199)
19. Nereida Prado, "The Vodun paradigm in Wilson Harris‟s Resurrection at sorrow hill" (p. 213)
20. Tyrone Ali, "White man vs. Black man: exploring Euro-Centric sexuality in David Dabydeen's Turner and its historical impact on lower strata Afro-Caribbean masculinities" (p. 221)
21. Ilsa López-Vallés, "Mother dear, where art thou? The absence of the Mother Figure in David Dabydeen's Work" (p. 233)
22. Michael Sharp, "Praising Africans Elsewhere: Kamau Brathwaite's Barabajan Poems" (p. 241)
23. ChenziRa Davis Kahina, "Caribbean women in spoken word, poetry and choreopoetry: exploring the works of Esther Phillips, Opal Palmer Adisa and Others" (p. 249)
24. Gentian Miller, "Heteroglossia: the languages of poetry, song and dance" (p. 257)
CONTACT, CONTINUITY, CONVERGENCE, AND COMPLEXITY IN CARIBBEAN CULTURES
25. Simon Lee, "Creolizing de Christ Mas: Creolization and globalization in the development of the St Kitts Christmas Sports" (p. 267)
26. Meagan Sylvester, "Understanding identity through the lyrical lens of the carnival musics of Trinidad and Tobago" (p. 273)
27. Elizabeth Rezende, "The changing face of labor and land in St. Croix 1908-1917" (p. 285)
28. Don E. Walicek, "Trajectories of cultural feedback: Alan Lomax in 1962 Anguilla" (p. 295)
29. Maritza Reyes Laborde, "Garifuna: a history of defiance and struggle" (p. 303)
30. Vanessa D. Austin, "Arguments for an adstrate perspective: a new field guide for the Caribbean" (p. 315)
31. Priya Parrotta Natarajan, "Promised land: Quilombismo, the “quilombo clause”, and the politics of recognition in contemporary Brazil" (p. 323)
32. Melinda Maxwell-Gibb, "The moon has a dirty face: an exploration into the migration of an Amerindian origin myth" (p. 337)