Double Voicing and Multiplex Identities:
Unpacking Hegemonic and Subaltern Discourses in the
Caribbean

UNPACKING HEGEMONIC AND SUBALTERN DISCOURSES IN CARIBBEAN POETRY AND NARRATIVE
1. Dannabang Kuwabong, "Purifying the settlers’ tongue: Marvin Williams’ poetics of legitimating and validating Crucian experience" (p. 15)
2. Kevin Kelly, "An exploration of race, gender, and commitment to community within the fiction and nonfiction of Marvin E. Williams" (p. 27)
3. Michael Sharp, "“In the presence of rain”: Martin Carter’s poem ‘for Walter Rodney’" (p. 35)
4. Gentian Miller, "The language of consciousness: listening to the band and listening to the land" (p. 41)
5. Elsa Maria Hosein, "Against silence and forgetting: George Lamming and Edwidge Danticat" (p. 49)
6. Kevin Kelly, "Polyrhythms and syncopated rhythms within the Trinidad narrative" (p. 57)

UNPACKING HEGEMONIC AND SUBALTERN DISCOURSES IN THE CARIBBEAN JOURNAL OF EDWARD B. EMERSON IN THE DANISH WEST INDIES AND BEYOND 1831-1832
7. José Rigau-Pérez, "Edward Bliss Emerson’s tri-national diary: Danish West Indies, Puerto Rico and New England, 1831-1832" (p. 65)
8. Wilfredo Geigel, "Edward Emerson: the medical tourist" (p. 67)
9. Annette Ramírez de Arellano, "Ideology and etiology in the treatment of Edward Emerson’s pulmonary “consumption”" (p. 73)
10. Alma Simounet, "The good, the bad, and the ugly: a proposal for the study of the rhetoric of othering in E. B. Emerson’s Caribbean diary of 1831-1832" (p. 79)
11. Silvia Rabionet, "The making of Edward Emerson’s biographical sketch: discovering the elusive quests of a young sojourner" (p. 85)
12. Raul Mayo-Santana, "Philosophical glimmers in the Caribbean diary of Edward Bliss Emerson" (p. 91)
 

UNPACKING HEGEMONIC AND SUBALTERN DISCOURSES IN CARIBBEAN LITERATURE WRITTEN BY AND ABOUT WOMEN
13. Cherie Meacham, "No way out – almost: the impact of place and space in Brenda Flanagan’s In praise of island women & other crimes" (p. 99)
14. Linette Soucy, "Ecofeminist currents in Dionne Brand’s At the full and change of the moon" (p. 113)
15. Nagueyalti Warren, "Maryse Condé and Margaret Walker: retrieving the grandmother" (p. 123)
16. Nereida Prado, "Under the silk cotton tree: a healing narrative for Grenada" (p. 131)
17. María del Carmen Quintero, "To her rock and back: Kamau Brathwaite’s tidalectics in Dionne Brand’s At the full and change of the moon" (p. 137)
18. Betsy Nies, "Eastern Caribbean young adult literature comes of age" (p. 143)
19. Melissa García Vega, "Caribbean children’s literature and the environment" (p. 155)

UNPACKING HEGEMONIC AND SUBALTERN DISCOURSES CONCERNING THE PROCESS OF CREOLIZATION IN CARIBBEAN LANGUAGES
20. Don Walicek, "From tomb to tool? Rethinking plantations for a Caribbean philosophy of language" (p. 165)
21. Cándida González-López, "Gender issues in the resistance to slavery and creole genesis" (p. 175)
22. Sally Delgado, "Pirate English of the Caribbean and Atlantic trade routes in the 17th and 18th centuries: linguistic hypotheses based on socio-historical data" (p. 183)
23. Hazel Ann Gibbs Depeza, "I speak, therefore I am" (p. 199)
24. Alim Hosein, "Is there evidence of decreolization in Guyanese phonology?" (p. 207)
25. Marguerite-Joan Joseph, "Preserving and revitalizing Grenadian French-lexifier Creole" (p. 217)

UNPACKING HEGEMONIC AND SUBALTERN DISCOURSES IN CARIBBEAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS
26. Melvin González-Rivera, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, "Extreme degree modifiers in Puerto Rican Spanish" (p. 231)
27. John Rueda Chaves, Lester Navas Escorcia, "Formalización de procesos variables en el Caribe colombiano: las fricativas sordas en el español de Barranquilla y en San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina" (p. 245)
28. Ann Albuyeh, "Lexical treasure: the Taíno legacy of language contact in Puerto Rico" (p. 267)
29. Marie France Patte, "The Arawak/Lokono word for man" (p. 275)
30. Oslyn Campbell, "The functions of code-switching: socio-political expression in a newspaper column" (p. 283)
31. Robert Dupey, "Functions and meaning of code-switching: two examples from the Caribbean" (p. 293)
32. Janice Jules, "Second language learning in the Anglophone Caribbean: immersion in Barbadian culture" (p. 299)
 

UNPACKING HEGEMONIC AND SUBALTERN DISCOURSES IN CARIBBEAN
MUSIC AND VISUAL ARTS
33. Everard Phillips, "The calypso: performance, drama, fiction and poetry" (p. 313)
34. Janine Tiffe, "Carnival musics of Trinidad and Tobago: new trends or business opportunity? Examining the collaborative relationship between pan and calypso/socacomposers and arrangers" (p. 333)
35. Meagan Sylvester, "Music for steelpan from calypso to kaiso-jazz fusion: an excursion into the history of pan music and pannists in the Trinidad and Tobago musical landscape" (p. 337)
36. Coreen Jacobs, "The impact of globalization on Afro-Guyanese music" (p. 345)
37. Suelin Low Chew Tung, "The Grenada ShortKnee street performance to canvas, getting past the carnival" (p. 353)
38. Carmen Milagros Torres, "Hidden masks upon the canvas: the transformation of the vejigante in plastic art" (p. 363)

UNPACKING HEGEMONIC AND SUBALTERN DISCOURSES IN CARIBBEAN
HISTORY AND POLITICS
39. Jo Anne Harris, “A narrative of the insurrection in the Island of Grenada which took place in 1795…” (p. 375)
40. Curtis Jacobs, "Grenada’s Pax Americana: political developments in Grenada since 1983" (p. 383)
41. Elizabeth Rezende, "The rise of the harbor and the increase in migration to St. Thomas, Danish West Indies 1880-1901" (p. 399)
42. Damarys Crespo, "The actual role and popular image of midwives in the Caribbean: evidence of women’s resistance" (p. 407)
43. Nalini Natarajan, "“Prophet in homespun”: Deenabandhu C.F. Andrews in the Caribbean" (p. 417)
44. Ilsa López-Vallés, "The history behind Wilson Harris’ The far journey of Oudin" (p. 427)
 

UNPACKING HEGEMONIC AND SUBALTERN DISCOURSES IN CARIBBEAN
CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND SOCIETY
45. Keith Cartwright, Paige Perez, "“One family come from one god”: the saraca ethos & the sacral costs of life" (p. 437)
46. Melinda Maxwell-Gibb, "Wendigo, Canaima, Caníbal: a journey into the world of Amerindian shape-shifting" (p. 445)
47. Santiago Ruiz, "La destrucción de lenguas: una amenaza a la cultura" (p. 451)
48. Judith Marie García Lozada, "El mantenimiento de la lengua e identidad frente a las actitudes lingüísticas en los puertorriqueños de Santa Cruz, USVI" (p. 463)
49. Chenzira Davis Kahina, "Revolution in cultural heritage education in the Caribbean: a Virgin Islands perspective" (p. 477)
50. Marsha Hinds-Layne, "Bridging academic distances in the Caribbean: a brief history of the ‘Islands-In-Between’ Conference (ECICC)" (p. 497)