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Beyond Borders

Beyond Borders

Cross-Culturalism And The Caribbean Canon

Edited by Jennifer Rahim and Barbara Lalla

267 Pages

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9789766402167
Published: July 2009

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Beyond Borders is a multidisciplinary collection of essays focusing on contemporary issues in Caribbean cultural studies. The essays in this collection explore cross-cultural themes across a range of disciplines that include literature, language, education, history and popular culture. They will interest a broad cross-section of regional and international readers, including a wide range of scholars, professional teachers, students and members of the general public wishing to understand the complex dynamics of Caribbean culture. The issues of cultural survival and negotiation, with which most of these essays deal, serve to foreground a history of domination, resistance and marvelous transformations within and beyond the borders of this archipelago.

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Cross-Culturalism and the Caribbean Canon: A Window to Future Possibilities
Jennifer Rahim with Barbara Lalla

Part 1 Language and Cultural Evolution
Language and the Politics of Ethnicity
George Lamming
Gender and Genre: The Logic of Language and the Logistics of Identity
Patricia J. Saunders
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: Reflections on Caribbean Language in a Globalizing Age
Valerie Youssef
Caribbean Cross-Culturalism in the Caribbean Multilingual Dictionary of Flora, Fauna and Foods
Jeannette Allsopp

Part 2 Beyond Borders: Questioning the Canon
Borders, Boundaries and Frames: Cross-Culturalism and the Caribbean Canon
Sandra Pouchet Paquet
Mutual Ground: Post-Empire Canons of Art in Britain and the Caribbean
Leon Wainwright

Part 3 Negotiating Subjectivities, Finding Ease
Coping with the New Culture: The East Indian Advisory Board as Mediator, 1937–1945
Brinsley Samaroo
Reflections on the Imaging of Africa in the Calypso of Trinidad and Tobago
Louis Regis
Bordering on the Transgressive: (Re)constructing Cultural Identities in Indo-Caribbean Fictions
Paula Morgan

Part 4 The Way Forward
Issues in Caribbean Cultural Studies: The Case of Jamaica
Joseph Pereira
The School as a Forum for Cross-Culturalism: The Curriculum as an Intervention Strategy
Sandra Ingrid Gift
Cultural Studies: The Way Forward
Rex Nettleford

Contributors

Jennifer Rahim is Senior Lecturer of Literature and Co-ordinator of Literatures in English, Department of Liberal Arts, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. Her articles on Caribbean literature have appeared in the Journal of West Indian Literature, Small Axe, MaComere and Anthurium. Her other publications include two collections of poems and a short story collection, Songster and Other Stories.

Barbara Lalla is Professor Emerita, Language and Literature, the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Her many publications include the novels Grounds for Tenure, Uncle Brother, Cascade, and Arch of Fire, and the scholarly works Postcolonialisms: Caribbean Rereading of Medieval English Discourse, Defining Jamaican Fiction: Marronage and the Discourse of Survival, the companion volumes Language in Exile: Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole and Voices in Exile: Jamaican Texts of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (co-authored with Jean D’Costa), and Caribbean Literary Discourse (co-authored with Jean D’Costa and Velma Pollard).

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