Transcultural Roots Uprising:
The Rhizomatic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the
Caribbean

Curaçao 2013, Volume 2

Special Section from the 14th Eastern Caribbean Islands Cultures Conference in Grenada November 2011

1. Joan Anim-Addo, "Introduction: ‘Behind the Looking-glass’: A view from Grenada through transnational lenses" (p. 15)
2. Joan Anim-Addo, "Writing and resistance: Tracing Grenada’s written literary tradition" (p. 17)
3. Maria Helena Lima, "The choice of opera for a revisionist history: Joan Anim-Addo’s Imoinda as a neo-slave narrative" (p. 33)
4. Mina Karavanta, "Interculturality, creolization and Joan Anim Addo’s Imoinda as a “signifying minority” narrative in-between cultures" (p. 45)
5. Marlène Edwin, "Living the archive: Joan Anim-Addo and the case of Imoinda" (p. 59)
6. Antonia MacDonald, "‘Jab jab is we ting’: a socio-political analysis of jab jab mas in Grenada" (p. 76)
7. Suzanne Scafe, "Translation, resistance and the transformational poetics of Dorothea Smartt and Amryl Johnson" (p. 87)
8. Peter A. Roberts, "Piracy and creolisation: Issues arising from appropriation and adaptation" (p. 101)

The Rhizomatic Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Virgin Islands

9. Geraldine Elizabeth Skeete, "Narrativizing and perspectivizing the Virgin Islander underclass in Tiphanie Yanique’s Street man" (p. 121)
10. Kevin G. Kelly-Cooke, "The language of resistance: The use of nation language in Marvin Williams’ “Manjack in the Hall”" (p. 131)
11. Alma Simounet, "The diaspora of Puerto Ricans in St. Croix: A socio-cultural and historical look at ethnicity, language and identity in a migratory group within a pluricultural context" (p. 137)
12. Elizabeth Rezende, "Susan Bough: Negotiating through a man’s world of business in the Danish West Indies 1905-1920" (p. 151)
13. Geissa R. Torres Santiago, "The role of Crucian Creole in formal education in St. Croix" (p. 161)
14. Diana Ursulin Mopsus, "The attitudes toward Caribbean Creoles of European descended communities in Martinique and St. Croix" (p. 171)
15. Bernhard Bierlich, "Problematizing Caribbean culture, identity and agency" (p. 179)

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The Rhizomatic Languages, Literatures and Cultures Emerging from Celtic and South Asian Indenture in the Caribbean

16. Jo Anne Harris, "Crossing the Atlantic: The politics of Irish indenture" (p. 187)
17. Virginia Stewart, "Whence the Irish in Barbados?" (p. 193)
18. Eva de Lourdes Edwards, "Barbadoes water: Celtic-Afro-Caribbean distilled rum" (p. 199)
19. Elena Lawton de Torruella, "The redlegs of Barbados: A tale of trauma, rootlessness, and erasure" (p.  205)
20. Sally Delgado, "Traces of Irish linguistic heritage in the Caribbean: The declarative high rise" (p. 213)
21. Tamami Shimada, "Diffusion vs. independent emergence of the do be habitual: Exploring linguistic connections between Ireland and the Eastern Caribbean" (p. 221)
22. Nivedita Misra, "Home as a site of refuge and oppression: The Indo-Caribbean woman 241 mediating the discourses of Matikor, Dougla poetics and Kala Pani" (p. 241)
23. Elsa Hosein, "No place like home – displacement in Rambai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge" (p. 251)
24. Ilsa López Vallés, "The coarse comedy in Ladoo’s Yesterdays: A critique of the Indo-Caribbean lower classes" (p. 257)
25. Ferne Louanne Regis, "Trinidadian Douglas and shifting identities" (p. 265)
 

The Rhizomatic Visual, Culinary and Performing Arts in the Caribbean

26. Michael McMillan, "The ‘West Indian’ front room: Reflections on a diasporic phenomenon" (p. 277)
27. Keja Valens, "Recipes for national culture in Guadeloupe and Martinique" (p. 297)
28. Suelin Low Chew Tung, "Grenada’s traditional mas: Theatre, history, religion" (p. 305)
29. Katherine Miranda, "Can the Midnight Robber slam?" (p. 315)
30. Meagan Sylvester, "Unpacking the role of women in the pan fraternity of Trinidad and Tobago" (p. 321)
31. Alim Hosein, "Nostalgia in Guyanese art and literature" (p. 327)
32. Nemesio Gil, "The Middle Passage in two instances of poetry and film: David Dabydeen’s historical poem Turner and Guy Deslauriers’s docudrama The Middle Passage" (p. 337)
 

Linguistics and the Rhizomatic Cultures of the Caribbean

33. Ann Albuyeh, "Linguistic domains and controversies: A firewall against Anglicisms in Puerto Rico" (p. 345)
34. Korah Belgrave, "Defining the limits: Making judgements about Barbadian language" (p. 355)
35. Lourdes González Cotto, "Maroons, marronage and the question of agency on the part of marginalized peoples in the emergence of the Atlantic creoles" (p. 365)
36. Cándida González-López, "Spiritual marronage, the power of language, and creole genesis" (p. 371)
37. Marisol Joseph Haynes and Diana Ursulin Mopsus, "A comparative study of tense, modality and aspect in Limonese creole and Martinican Creole" (p. (p. 379)
38. Micah Corum, "Cognitive semantics meets creole linguistics" (p. 389)
39. John E. Rueda Chaves, "Variación en la jerarquía de restricciones de /-s/ en el Caribe Hispánico: ¿Evidencia en contra de una tipologización del Español en la zona?" (p. 401)
 

Literature and the Rhizomatic Cultures of the Caribbean

40. Oihida Beloucif, "Rhizomatic female protagonists in the work of Claire Harris, Mahadai Das and Marysé Condé" (p. 417)
41. Mark Andrews, "Of sun, sulphur, and cyclones: The geopoetics of the island in Daniel Maximin’s Caribbean Trilogy" (p. 425)
42. Louis Regis, "The Badjohn in Earl Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance and The Wine of Astonishment" (p. 433)
43. Nagueyalti Warren, "The hermeneutics of victim and sacrifice in The Wine of Astonishment" (p. 443)
44. Karen Sanderson, "Autobiography as personal and national identity: The case of James Mitchell in St. Vincent and the Grenadines" (p. 451)
45. Nereida Prado, "Edgar Mittelholzer’s Tropical Gothic" (p. 463)
46. Keith Cartwright and Dolores Flores-Silva, "Between covergirl and chloroform-cauliflower: The re-creation of the female character in Amalia by Rosario Ferré and Amour by Marie Vieux-Chauvet" (p. 469)
47. María del Carmen Quintero, "Drawing down her[story]: Male re-presentations in Claire Harris’ Drawing Down a Daughter" (p. 479)
48. Petra E. Avillan-Leon, "The role of the older sister in Caribbean life and literature" (p. 489)
 

Rhizomatic History, Education and Society in the Caribbean

49. Michael Sharp, "Walter Rodney’s groundings: “A man who knew about Africa” from liberation to apartheid" (p. 497)
50. Carolyn Walcott, "Guyana-Brazil border relations and cross cultural fertilization: Opportunity or threat to Guyanese national identity?" (p. 505)
51. Priya Parrotta Natarajan, "Fugas y fronteras: The politics of inclusion in San Mateo de Cangrejos, a fugitive settlement of Afro-Caribbean slaves in Puerto Rico" (p. 511)
52. Hazel Ann Gibbs De Peza, "CXC English A & B: Is A average and B bad?" (p. 523)
53. Brianna Grantham, "Cultural awareness: Connecting coursework to local topics and students to professors" (p. 529)
54. Janice E. Jules, "Conversation: It’s more than chatter" (p. 535)
55. Marsha Hinds-Layne, "The growth of linguistics as a discipline at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus 1974-2011" (p. 543)