Negotiating Crosswinds: Trans-linguality, Trans-culturality and Trans-identification in the Greater Caribbean

Curaçao/Puerto Rico 2020, Volume 2

Intersections of History and Trans-Identification in the Greater Caribbean and beyond

1. Michael Sivapragasam, "The Returned Maroons of Trelawny Town" (p. 13)

2.  Ann Albuyeh, "Voyages from St. Thomas to Puerto Rico during the Intra-American Slave Trade" (p. 25)

3. Jessica Adams, "Memories of Unseen Landscapes: Confederate Migration and Southern Hybridity" (p. 41)

4. Elizabeth Rezende, "D. Hamilton Jackson and the Virgin Islands Diaspora in Harlem in 1915" (p. 55)

5. Jan Bant, "Both Freedom and Slavery: Race and Golden Age Piracy" (p. 67)

INTERSECTIONS OF EDUCATION, TRANS-CULTURALITY AND TRANS-LINGUALITY IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND

6.  Jo Anne Harris, "Curating the Virtual Caribbean: Digital Memory and Cultural Legacies" (p. 81)

7. Nicole Ajodha and Tyrone Ali, "A Comparative Study on Teacher Perception of the Use of an English Lexifier Creole as Contributing to Student Failure on the CSEC English Language Examination" (p. 89)

8. Keisha Evans-Dixon and Leiba-Ann Ferreira, "The Field Dependence/Independence Cognitive Construct: Exploring the Relationship Between ESL Students’ Cognitive Styles and their Performance in Face-to-Face and Online Learning Activities" (p. 107)

9. Pamela Rose, "Integrating High-Impact Practices in a Language Teaching Course" (p. 123)

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INTERSECTIONS OF LITERATURE, PSYCHOLOGY AND TRANS-IDENTIFICATION IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND

10.  Nagueyalti Warren, "Ted Bundy and Elements of Mythology in Land of Love and Drowning" (p. 135)

11.  Dannabang Kuwabong and Alexandra M. Martínez-Cañavate Soltero, "Antisocial Personality Disorders in Myriam Warner-Vieyra’s Juletane  and Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea" (p. 141)

12.  Frances’Lee González Rosado, "Beyond the Vow: Gender Performativity in David Edgecombe’s For Better For Worse" (p. 153)

13. Eugene Speakes, "Nature as a Catalyst for Change in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Novel Slave Old Man and Jacob Ross’ Short Story “De Laughin Tree” (p. 159)

14.  Gabriel E. Suárez, "Spatial Dramatic and Performance Texts in Djanet Sears’ Afrika Solo" (p. 167)

INTERSECTIONS OF DISCOURSE AND TRANS-LINGUALITY IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND

15. Erika Marrero Pérez, Alma Simounet and Jean Cuevas, "The Analysis of Directives in Puerto Rican Spanish: Thirty Years Later" (p. 177)

16. Tiffany Rodríguez Cruz, Luis Daniel Acevedo Vélez, Alexandra Román Irizarry y Johanses N. Ríos Ghigliotty, "Preferencia sintáctica de alternancia de código en estudiantes universitarios bilingües puertorriqueños" (p. 197)

17.  Simón Campos y Abimelec Morales Rivera, "La semántica y los anglicismos en el discurso puertorriqueño" (p. 209)

18.  Orville O. Villanueva Feliciano, "The English and Spanish Code Switching of Puerto Ricans  and Porto Crucians" (p. 219)

19. Jacqueline Adjoa Amponsah, "Language Choice and Use in Ghanaian Churches: A Case Study of Tema Newtown" (p. 227)

Intersections of Literature, Masculinities and Trans-Identification in the Greater Caribbean

and beyond

20.  Michael Sharp, "In Praise of Men Making Words: Kamau Brathwaite and Nicolás Guillén" (p. 241)

21. Glenda Moreno-Aponte, "Kamau Brathwaite’s Search for Identity in The Arrivants" (p. 253)

22. Agnes Sastre-Rivera, "Christian Doctrine, Homosexuality, and Trauma in H. Nigel Thomas’ Return To Arcadia" (p. 261)

23. Ari Alannah Hernandez, "The Dawning of a New Age: Healing Masculinity in Patricia Powell’s    The Fullness of Everything" (p. 269)

24. Sharif El Gammal-Ortiz, "The Totemic Page: Ogotemmêli’s Thought in the Work of Kamau Brathwaite" (p. 279)

INTERSECTIONS OF POLITICS, POPULAR CULTURE AND TRANS-CULTURALITY IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND

25. Sofía Teresa Lebrón Sepúlveda, "Code-Switching in #Rickyrenuncia: The Facebook Live of Rosselló’s Resignation Message" (p. 297)

26. Miguel A. de Jesús Colón, "La Gran Marcha del Pueblo de Puerto Rico: Content and Intertextuality  in Puerto Rican Protest Signage" (p. 307)

27. Anna Kasafi Perkins, "Foresighting, Ethics and the Futures: Vision 2030 and a Standard for  Public Behaviour in Jamaica" (p. 319)

28. Rubén Ramos Colón, "Léxico transcaribeño en el reggaetón como evidencia de contacto lingüístico entre comunidades afrocaribeñas: el caso de gyal y yal" (p. 331)

29. Meagan Sylvester, "Memorialising The Mighty Shadow: Personal, Collective and Cultural Memory in Calypso" (p. 341)

INTERSECTIONS OF LITERATURE, COLONIALITY AND TRANS-CULTURALITY IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND

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30. Gabriel E. Suárez, "Textos y contextos en Quíntuples, drama de Luis Rafael Sánchez (1984)" (p. 351)

31. Lynette Cintrón, ""The Inevitable Centre Table”: Colonial Discourse in Marion Blythe’s An American Bride in Porto Rico" (p. 359)

32. Roberto C. Sánchez-Zayas, "Puerto Rican Women Enact Transnationalism: The Work of Aurora Levins Morales, Rosario Morales, and María Fernández (A.K.A. “Mariposa”)" (p. 371) 

33. Jaydy Mir Sira, "A Puerto Rican Interpretation of Louise Bennett’s Poems “Dry-Foot Bwoy”, “Cuss Cuss” and “Likkle Twang” (p. 387) 

34. Kevin George Kelly, "Decolonizing Spirits: Indigenous Oral Traditions in Anthropology and in Caribbean Literature" (p. 391)