Memories of Caribbean futures: Reclaiming the pre-colonial to imagine a post-colonial in the languages, literatures and cultures of the Greater Caribbean and beyond

Curaçao/Puerto Rico 2017, Volume 2

Reclaiming the pre-colonial to imagine a post-colonial in the Literatures of the Greater Caribbean and beyond

1. Nagueyalti Warren, “A ripple in reality: Karen Lord’s Redemption in indigo” (p. 13)

2. Kwame Osei-Poku and G. Edzordzi Agbozo, “Negotiating the Gothic in African literature: a study of Amos Tutuola’s The palm-wine drinkard and Bessie Head’s Maru” (p. 19)

3. Mark Andrews, “Seismic poetics in Yanick Lahens’s Failles” (p. 33)

4. Jo Robles Lugo, “Christ in Africa: a look at the impact of Christianity in Africa based on The tempest, Arrow of God, and Devil on the cross” (p. 43)

5. Carmen Lourdes Aponte Guzman, “The ekphrasis poetic language of Andre Bagoo in Burn and After Caravaggio, Christ on the Mount of Olive” (p. 51)

6. Josefa Santos Turull, “Consideraciones de las ideas de Michel Foucault en los poemas, “Nosotros”, “Sepa usted” y “Al frente” del libro Mundo abierto de Hugo Margenat” (p. 55)

Reclaiming the pre-colonial to imagine a post-colonial in the Linguistics of the Greater Caribbean and beyond

7. Melvin González-Rivera, “Expresiones coloquiales en español” (p. 71)

8. Godsuno Chela-Flores, “The myth-discourse-ideology axis and the Hispanic dialect complex” (p. 83)

9. Sebastián Cruz Abreu and Alma Simounet, “Female nicknaming practices and gender constructs in Puerto Rican society” (p. 95)

10. Sylvia Aponte, “Singing between two cultures: the case of Ricky Martin’s code mixed lyrics” (p. 105)

11. Beatrice Offeibea Awuku, “Gender variation in the use of politeness on Facebook” (p. 111)

Reclaiming the pre-colonial to imagine a post-colonial in Performance and Histories of the Greater Caribbean and beyond

12. Robert W. Nicholls, “Social meaning in the folk songs of the Eastern Caribbean and West Africa” (p. 129)

13. Melinda Maxwell-Gibb, “From Bacoo to Bohpoli: South Eastern Amerindian elements found in the folklore of Barbados and the Anglophone Caribbean” (p. 145)

14. Brenda Villalobos Varela and Sigrid Solano Moraga, “¿Cómo se lee Anansi en Costa Rica? Una lectura descolonizadora” (p. 151)

15. Sara Marel, “Du conte traditionnel au roman antillais: confluences et interferences” (p. 165)

16. Sally J. Delgado, “Maritime violence shaped the Caribbean” (p. 183)

Reclaiming the pre-colonial to imagine a post-colonial in the Creole Linguistics of the Greater Caribbean and beyond

17. Aida Vergne, “African influences on the Atlantic Creoles: evidence from Crucian English lexifier Creole” (p. 193)

18. Micah Corum, Daniel Shanklin and Rachel La Russo, “Polyphonic creole discourse: an examination of phrasal verb constructions in Crucian” (p. 215)

19. René Zúñiga Argüello, “A sociolinguistic overview on Limon Kryol” (p. 223)

20. Cristal R. Heffelfinger-Nieves, ““Universal” or European? Testing conversational postulates in Afro-Caribbean communities” (p. 233)

Reclaiming the pre-colonial to imagine a post-colonial in the Genders, Identities, and Literatures of the Greater Caribbean and beyond

21. Victoria Amma Agyeiwaah Osei-Bonsu, “Locating others: Jamaica Kincaid and the autobiography of memory” (p. 245)

22. Fay White, “Mothering, marronage and female same-sex desire in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng” (p. 261)

23. Raúl J. Vázquez-Vélez, “The rise and fall of Caribbean gentlemen: marginalization and the unmanning of Caribbean masculinities in Anglophone Caribbean fiction” (p. 267)

24. Tyrone Ali, “The penis: problem, power or partner? Intersections of male Indo-Caribbean sexualities and phallocentrism in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus blooms at night” (p. 291)

Reclaiming the pre-colonial to imagine a post-colonial in the Language and Education in the Greater Caribbean and beyond

25. Alicia Pousada, “Literacy as a prerequisite for world peace” (p. 305)

26. Oihida Beloucif, “The acquisition of the French adverbial pronouns en and y by Spanish-English bilingual university students in Puerto Rico” (p. 321)

27. Cliton Seide, “Sociolinguistic aspects of learning English and French in Haiti” (p. 325)

28. Marsha Hinds-Layne, “Celebrating a 50th birthday: the contribution of the University of the West Indies (UWI) to Caribbean civilization” (p. 339)

Reclaiming the pre-colonial to imagine a post-colonial in the Cultures and Societies of the Greater Caribbean and beyond

29. Anna Kasafi Perkins, ““Shi wi use har blood tie him”: a theological interrogation of cultural beliefs about menstruation and female [im]morality in Jamaica” (p. 349)

30. Dámarys T. Crespo Valedón, “The role and image of midwives in Caribbean society from the colonial period to the present: a critical analysis of the discourse relevant to midwifery in specific Hispanophone, Anglophone, and Francophone contexts” (p. 361)

31. Dannabang Kuwabong, “Emancipation without liberation: the struggle for land and citizenship rights in Dennis Scott’s An echo in the bone and David Edgecombe’s Kirnon’s kingdom” (p. 373)

32. Florence Abugtane Avogo and Gervase Kuuwaabong, “Problems in urban planning regimes and their enforcement: the case of Wa Municipality in the Upper West Region of Ghana” (p. 389)

33. Annette B. Ramírez de Arellano, “Reflections on ‘reflejos’: belief and science in popular therapeutics” (p. 401)