Caribbean Without Borders ― Literature, Language and Culture

Emerging scholars in Caribbean studies, writing from the Anglophone, Hispanophone, and Francophone Caribbean, explore the region's social issues, migratory experiences, cultural identities, creolized linguistics, and literary landscapes. Essays are grouped in sections on Caribbean literature, language, and culture; representations in Caribbean music, drama, and dance; and migration, landscape, and identity. Some specific topics studied include the functions of ghosts in Wilson Harris' fiction, the use of English lexified Creole in Anglophone Caribbean literature, Bob Marley as a postcolonial activist and revolutionary intellectual, and deconstructing Cuban identity in Senal Paz's The Wolf, the Woods and the New Man and its film adaptation Strawberry and Chocolate. A chapter on architecture contains b&w photos. Material originated at a March 2007 conference hosted by the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, where editor Smith teaches English. A subject index is not provided. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dorsia Smith has a Ph.D. in Caribbean Literature. She teaches English at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, and has published articles in various texts, such as Narrating the Past (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007) and African American Women Writers: An A to Z Guide (Greenwood Press, 2007). She is currently working on a book about mothering in the Latina and Chicana communities to be published by York University. Raquel Puig Campos is a Ph.D. candidate in Anglo-Caribbean Literature at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. She is currently working on her dissertation on the influence of film on the narratives of writers from the Anglo- and Spanish Caribbean. Her interests include a multicultural and crosscultural approach to the study of colonial literatures, media studies and history. She has published in diverse refereed journals and has been coordinator for various academic conferences at UPR-Rio Piedras. Ileana Cortes Santiago holds an M.A. in English (Literature) from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras. She is currently an English Instructor at the University of Puerto Rico, Bayamon. She has published articles in English Today and various journals at UPR-Rio Piedras, and has offered workshops on creative and practical teaching techniques to English teachers in Puerto Rico. Her areas of interest are Romantic poetry, literacy, and TESOL.