| Description |
xiii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"This ... collection is the result of selected papers presented at the 'Caribbean without Borders Conference', which was hosted by the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, on March 19-21, 2007"--Introd. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The Caribbean without frames : narrative structure in Samuel Selvon’ s London novels / Karen Mah Chamberlain -- Ghost know no borders : a look at the functions of ghosts in Wilson Harris’ fiction in general and the Ghost of memory in particular / Suzanna Engman -- Drenched : wet poetries of Lorna Goodison and Olive Senior / Yasmine Shamma -- The use of English lexified Creole in Anglophone Caribbean literature / Marta Viada Bellido de Luna -- Si-Dieu-Veut :Vodou as catalytic and fatalistic religion in Masters of the dew / Dara Green -- Going bananas on the New York stage : representations of the Caribbean as seen in J. Robinson's The Yorker's stratagem or, Banana's wedding / Juan R. Recondo -- Bomba Trigueña : diluted culture and (loss of) female agency in AfroPuerto Rican music and dance performance / Melanie A. Maldonado -- Bob Marley : postcolonial activist and (r)evolutionary intellectual / Adam M. Loyd -- Disjunctions and deformations : memory and landscape in the West Indies / Lavina Liburd -- Staging transculturation : border crossings in Josefina Baez’ s performance texts / Liamar Durán Almarza -- Deconstructing Cuban identity : Senel Paz’ s The Wolf, the woods and the new man: and its film adaptation Strawberry and chocolate by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea / Tania Cepero López -- Caribbean women writers and the strategy of memory / Aida Luz Rodríguez -- Feodor Dostoyevsky and Claude McKay : Cross-cultural dialogue with the dominant Western ethnocentrism / Tatiana Tagirova -- The imagined nation in Cristina García’ s Monkey hunting / Raquel Puig. |
| Subject |
Caribbean literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Caribbean Area -- In literature -- Congresses.
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Caribbean Area -- Languages -- Congresses.
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Caribbean Area -- Civilization -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Silva, Dorsía Smith.
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Puig, Raquel.
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Cortés Santiago, Ileana.
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| Added Title |
Caribbean literature, language and culture |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Caribbean without Borders Conference (2007 : University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus) Caribbean without borders. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008 (OCoLC)649044626 |
| ISBN |
9781443800396 |
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1443800392 |
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