Introduction
Nadi Edwards
Part 1. Ceremonies of the Word
Atumpan: Kamau Brathwaite and the Gift of Ancestral Memory
Kofi Anyidoho
The Rhythms of Caribbean Vocal and Oral-Based Texts
Maureen Warner-Lewis
Keeping Your Word: Contracts, Covenants and Canticles
J. Edward Chamberlin
When Form Becomes Substance: Discourse on Discourse in Two Calypsos
Hubert Devonish
A Language of Myth
Jeanne Christensen
Part 2. Jah Music and Dub Elegy: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite and Mikey Smith
The Music of Kamau Brathwaite
Lilieth Nelson
“Travelling Miles”: Jazz in the Making of a West Indian Intellectual
Donette A. Francis
Remembering Michael Smith (Mikey, Dub and Me)
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Part 3. The Sea Is History: Tidalectics, Middle Passages and Migrant Crossings
Routes and Roots: Tidalectics in Caribbean Literature
Elizabeth DeLoughrey
Kamau Brathwaite and the Haitian Boat People: Dream Haiti or the Nightmare of the Caribbean Intellectual
Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo
Part 4. Creolization, Historiography and Subalternity
Whose World View Rules? Sublated Contradictions of African and Creole in the Caribbean Historiography of Kamau Brathwaite
Cecil Gutzmore
Kamau Brathwaite and the Creolization of History in the Anglophone Caribbean
Glen Richards
Creolization, Hybridity, Pluralism: Historical Articulations of Race and Ethnicity
Ileana Rodríguez
The Prose of Creolization: Brathwaite’s The Development of Creole Society and Subaltern Historiography
Leah Rosenberg
Part 5. Resurrecting the Human Face from the Archive
Resisting Representation: Locating Enslaved and Indentured Women’s Voices in the Colonial Caribbean
Verene A. Shepherd
The Links of a Legacy: Figuring the Slave Trade to Jamaica
Douglas B. Chambers
The Arabic Manuscript of Muhammad Kaba Saghanughu of Jamaica, c.1820
Yacine Daddi Addoun and Paul E. Lovejoy
Religion and Sociopolitical Protest in Jamaica: Alexander Bedward of the Jamaican Native Baptist Free Church, 1889–1921
Veront M. Satchell
Part 6. Creole Bodies, Dancehall Style: Gender, Sexuality and Representation in Jamaican Popular Culture
“Love Punaany Bad”: Negotiating Misogynistic Masculinity in Dancehall Culture
Donna P. Hope
Jamaica’s Emerging Tradition in Film: Presenting the Female Body in Dancehall Queen
Rachel Moseley-Wood
Part 7. Jamaican Identities and Globalization: Citizenship, Subalternity and Cyberspace
Citizenship and Subalternity of the Voice within Globalization: Dilemmas of the Public Sphere, Civil Society and Human Rights in the Periphery
Robert Carr
The Word in Cyberspace: Constructing Jamaican Identity on the Internet
Bernard Jankee
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