Caribbean Without Borders

Beyond the Can[n]on’s Range

Gabriel J. Jiménez Fuentes, Gabriel Mejía González, Marisol Joseph Haynes (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

315 Seiten

2015 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4438-7847-0 (ISBN)

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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 distances out into uncharted territories, beyond the canon, and, thus, beyond the cannon’s range.This book features a selection of essays presented at the fifth annual Caribbean Without Borders conference at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. It critically delves into the fields of linguistics, history, literature, philosophy, politics, feminism, cultural studies, music, film, and art, among many others, as a means to re-visit, re-view, re-envision, re-read, re-interpret, and thus re-create a Caribbean aesthetics that looks to submarine unity, a unity that defies spatial, temporal, and social borders. The book conveys the limitless nature of the Caribbean and its rich culture, making it an appealing transdisciplinary source for a multidisciplinary academic audience.

María del Carmen Quintero Aguiló is a doctoral candidate at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, where she is also an Adjunct Professor. Her area of specialization is Caribbean studies, with an emphasis on literature, and the poetry of Derek Walcott. Her work has appeared in publications such as Caribbean Studies Journal, Transcultural Roots Uprising, and Creolization and Commonalities.Gabriel J. Jiménez Fuentes joined the Office of Institutional Diversity at the University of Georgia–Athens in 2015. He is the Coordinator of Student Academic Success and Achievement, and a doctoral student in Caribbean Literature at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. He received a Master’s degree in African Languages and Literature from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.Marisol Joseph Haynes is a doctoral candidate at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. Her areas of interest are creole genesis, sociolinguistics, language and identity, and intercultural communication. Her doctoral thesis is an analysis on the influence of Spanish on the English lexified creole spoken in her hometown of Limón, Costa Rica.Gabriel Mejía González is a doctoral student in Caribbean Studies at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. His interests are evolutionary linguistics, specifically instances of language change found in creoles of the Netherland Antilles. His current research focuses on elision in word final position in St. Eustatius Creole English.Diana Ursulin Mopsus is a doctoral candidate at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. She received an MA in Translation from the University Charles de Gaulle Lille III, France. Her areas of interest and research are creole genesis, sociolinguistics, endangered languages, and language maintenance.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.01.2016
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
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ISBN-10	1-4438-7847-2 / 1443878472
ISBN-13	978-1-4438-7847-0 / 9781443878470
Zustand	Neuware