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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, Rio 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.

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• List of Figures and Tables(p. viii)
• Acknowledgements(p. ix)
• Editors' Note(p. x)
• Chapter 1 Beyond The Can[N]On: Literature Without Borders
• You Reap what you Sow: Exploitation and Consequences in Jacques Roumain's Masters of the Dew and Mayra Montero's In the Palm of Darkness(p. 2)
• Damaged Identity in Jean-Robert Cadet's Restavec: from Haitian Slave
• Child to Middle-Class American(p. 15)
• Revisiting the Past in Martin Carter's the University of Hunger(p. 25)
• Identity and Culture in Sam Selvon's Lonely Londoners: Migration, Race, Colour, Sexuality, Gender, and Language(p. 29)
• The Women of Earl Lovelace's the Dragon Can't Dance(p. 35)
• Chapter 2 Socio-Cultural Forms without Borders
• Queerengue: Afro-Dominicanidad y Performance en el Merengue Callejero del Rey Tulile(p. 46)
• Repiques y Piquetes: Bomba y Racialización en Puerto Rico(p. 54)
• "Bacchanal is We Ting": Examining the Politics of Authenticity within Trinidad and Tobago's Carnival(p. 68)
• Language and Identity: Iris López's Study of "Boricuas in Hawaii"(p. 81)
• Isla Grande; Isla Pequena: Relaciones Politicas entre Trinidad y Tobago(p. 89)
• Aspectos Sociológicos Sobre la Narco-cultura y los Ritos Funerarios en Puerto Rico: El Caso de la Muerte del "Chacal de Llorens Torres"(p. 112)
• Chapter 3 Humanistic Forms without Borders
• Modern Man and the Shamanic Journey(p. 124)
• Unpoliticized Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites in the Caribbean(p. 139)
• El Sueno Como Mito Fundacional en Litoral(p. 151)
• Entre el Antagonismo y la Comunicabilidad: Una Mirada a la Articulation Lógica en Ernesto Laclau(p. 156)
• Individualismo y Opresión: El Atomismo Como Herramienta de Poder(p. 165)
• Entre el Amor y el Baile de la Sangre: Metáforas de Resistencia en las Poéticas de Silvio Rodriguez y José Marti(p. 172)
• Chapter 4 Languages without Borders
• Bilingual Literature: A Strategy of Decolonization in Response to U.S. Interventionism(p. 186)
• Is There a Place in the Fields of Linguistics and Creolistics for Intuitive and Spiritual Knowledge?(p. 197)
• Including Caribbean Languages in the World Loanword Database(p. 203)
• Transformation of the East Indian Indentured Labourers' Language in Trinidad(p. 213)
• To Each His Own: Deconstructing the Myth of Default Male Pronouns in the Caribbean(p. 221)
• The Crisis of Masculinity: Racism, Sexism, and the Feminist Turn(p. 233)
• Chapter 5 African Currents without Borders
• The Obeah Woman: Christophine in John Duigan's Film Adaptation of Wide Sargasso Sea(p. 244)
• In a State of Constant Flux: The Repression and Resistance of African Forms in Earl Lovelace's The Wine of Astonishment(p. 252)
• Primal Scream? Rebel Yell! Correlations between Death and Nostalgia and the Preservation of History in the Haitian Storytelling Tradition: Krik? Krak!(p. 260)
• TUN-TUN-tun-tun: Giving a Voice to Afro-Puerto Rican Literature(p. 274)
• Appendix A (p. 283)
• Contributors(p. 285)
• Index(p. 292)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Mara del Carmen Quintero Aguil is a doctoral candidate at the University of Puerto Rco, Ro 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. Jimnez 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, Ro 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, Ro Piedras Campus. Her areas of interest are Creole genesis, sociolmguistics, 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 Limn, Costa Rica.
Gabriel Meja Gonzlez is a doctoral student in Caribbean Studies at the University of Puerto Rico, Ro 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, Ro 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, sociolmguistics, endangered languages, and language maintenance.