Caribbean without borders : beyond the Can[n]on's range / edited by María del Carmen Quintero Aguiló [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

del Carmen Quintero Aguiló, María, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and culture--Caribbean Area.

Language and culture.

Anthropological linguistics--Caribbean Area.

Anthropological linguistics.

Caribbean Area--Languages.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

Seven papers in Spanish.

Summary:

One of the most salient issues in Caribbean studies is the region's linguistic and cultural fragmentation as a result of European colonization. More than five centuries later, the islands and American countries whose shores touch the Caribbean Sea still echo such maladies. The title of this book is a call towards unity, a unity that, in the words of Barbadian poet, historian and critic Kamau Brathwaite, "is submarine." In the past, nations' borders were established based on the distance a cannon ball was able to cover when fired from land out to sea. It is time to go beyond the cannon ball dis

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Editors' Note

Chapter One

You Reap what you Sow

Damaged Identity in Jean-Robert Cadet's Restavec

Revisiting the Past in Martin Carter's The University of Hunger

Identity and Culture in Sam Selvon's Lonely Londoners

The Women of Earl Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance

Chapter Two

Queerengue

Repiques y Piquetes

"Bacchanal is We Ting"

Language and Identity

Isla Grande

Isla Pequeña

Aspectos Sociológicos Sobre la Narco-cultura y los Ritos Funerarios en Puerto Rico

Chapter Three

Modern Man and the Shamanic Journey

Unpoliticized Beauty

El Sueño Como Mito Fundacional en Litoral

Entre el Antagonismo y la Comunicabilidad

Individualismo y Opresión

Entre el Amor y el Baile de la Sangre

Chapter Four

Bilingual Literature

Is There a Place in the Fields of Linguistics and Creolistics for Intuitive and Spiritual Knowledge?

Including Caribbean Languages in the World Loanword Database

Transformation of the East Indian Indentured Labourers' Language in Trinidad

To Each His Own

The Crisis of Masculinity

Chapter Five

The Obeah Woman

In a State of Constant Flux

Primal Scream? Rebel Yell! Correlations Between Death and Nostalgia and the Preservation of History in the Haitian Storytelling Tradition

TUN-TUN-tun-tun

Appendix A

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8135-X

OCLC:

922704068