Breaking Down Binaries: Tidal Shifts in the study of the languages, literatures and cultures of the Greater Caribbean and beyond

Curaçao/Puerto Rico 2018, Volume 1

Island Shifts in the study of literature and politics in the Greater Caribbean and beyond

1. Michael Sharp, ”Kamau Brathwaite’s “stone” for Mikey Smith” (p. 13)

2. Sally J. Delgado, “Mythbusting maritime fiction” (p. 19)

3. Alfred Kwami Teni, “Colonization, culture and pan-Africanism in the poems of Kofi Awoonor” (p. 35)

4. Aart G. Broek, “The Rastafarian: from pariah to hero in Jamaican literary discourse from the 1950s to the 1980s” (p. 39)

5. Charity Aboagye, “Consideraciones de las ideas de Michel Foucault en los poemas, “Nosotros”” (p. 49)

Tidal Shifts in the study of music, dance, art, and film in the Greater Caribbean and beyond

6. Anna Kasafi Perkins, “Blood clot, ras cloth and bun bow cloth: Lovindeer takes on female bodily taboos in Jamaica” (p. 63)

7. Ann Albuyeh, “Afro-Caribbean dance and cultural connections in the Spanish Eastern and Western Caribbean” (p. 79)

8. Lydia Platón, “Elizabeth Magali Robles y la acción como condición” (p. 95)

9. Meagan Sylvester, “Toward a gendered understanding of Calypso music” (p. 107)

10. Nicole Díaz Morell, “Contrasting film techniques in Maria Govan’s Rain and Ernesto Daranas’ Conducta” (p. 113)

Tidal Shifts in the study of language in the Greater Caribbean and beyond

11. Frances S. Rivera Cornier, “The visual and verbal representations of Mami Wata billboards in Ghana” (p. 123)

12. Alim Hossein, “Culturation and language in Guyana” (p. 141)

13. Marguerite-Joan Joseph, “A study of the negative in Grenadian French lexifier Creole” (p. 151)

14. Charles Djorbua, “A sociolinguistic study of language variation in the English spoken in Ghana: a case study of the schwa vowel” (p. 159)

Tidal Shifts in the study of identity and culture in the Greater Caribbean and beyond

15. Wilfredo A. Geigel and Alma Simounet-Geigel, “La raza: the search for identity” (p. 169)

16. Gabriel E. Suárez, “La identidad lingüística puertorriqueña en los billboards de San Juan y Carolina” (p. 179)

17. Ilsa López-Vallés, “Humor and optimism following the 2017 hurricane disasters in Dominica and Puerto Rico” (p. 191)

18. Alexandra N. Mihailovic Court and Luis A. Sanchez Galan, “A critical analysis of public discourse after hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico” (p. 197)

Tidal Shifts in the study of education in the Greater Caribbean and beyond

19. Janice Jules, “Lecturers’ perceptions of the efficacy of the integration of communicative strategies and instructional technologies in foreign language instruction” (p. 207)

20. Penelope Montfort, “Spelling acquisition at the University of Guyana: an error analysis” (p. 219)

21. Cynthia Pittmann, “On being incarcerated in Puerto Rico: employing an autobiographical pedagogy” (p. 231)

22. Jeffrey O’Field and Patrick Oneill López Negrón, “A preliminary account of a transformative pedagogical model: using historical fiction in the Caribbean” (p. 237)

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Tidal Shifts in the study of the language and culture in the Greater Caribbean and beyond

23. Hélène Zamor, “The language of sugar cane and rum in Martinique” (p. 245)

24. Brenda L. Domínguez Rosado, “Barbados and its “colony” South Carolina: historical, cultural, and linguistic connections” (p. 251)

25. Iris Hewitt-Bradshaw, “The linguistic and social history of food vocabulary in Trinidad and Tobago English lexifier Creoles” (p. 261)

26. Gervase Kuuwaabong, “Ghana ‘pona’ yam: a potential product for geographical indication status” (p. 273)

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Tidal Shifts in the study of society and history in the Greater Caribbean and beyond

27. Janice Cools, “Reconstructing Saint Lucian boyhood: a transnational approach” (p. 291)

28. Roseline Armange, “Views of the descendants of the enslaved in Martinique on the question of reparations” (p. 301)

29. Elizabeth Rezende, “The Danish West Indies: paternalism and poverty” (p. 315)

30. Bernard Bierlich, “The Caribbean in world history: Carribean impacts on global struggles for freedom” (p. 325)

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Tidal Shifts in the study of literature in the Greater Caribbean and beyond

31. Raúl Javier Vázquez Vélez, “The anachronisms of exile: counter-narrative, memory, time and remembrance in George Lamming’s In the castle of my skin” (p. 339)

32. Maritza V. Cardona Ortiz, “The importance of ghosts in Edgar Mittelholtzer’s My bones and my flute and Wilson Harris’ Palace of the peacock” (p. 349)

33. Kofi Darkoh-Ankrah, “The colonial gaze and the sex scenes in Amma Darko’s Beyond the horizon” (p. 357)

34. Anissa M. Ortega Díaz and Jomayra Pimentel Rodríguez, “Lenguaje y figura: estudio de personajes inusuales en el libro Mundo cruel del escritor puertorriqueño Luis Negrón” (p. 365)

35. Klaas Bant, “Canefields, golden mongooses, and faceless men: trauma theory and The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao” (p. 373)