The Child and the Caribbean Imagination

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Imagining Caribbean Childhoods
Giselle Rampaul and Geraldine Elizabeth Skeete

PART 1 . DISCOURSE AND REPRESENTATION
Towards a Poetics of Childhood
Sandra Pouchet Paquet
The Child as Symbol of “Challenge” in Michael Anthony’s The Year in San Fernando
Jennifer Rahim
“The Thing Without a Name”: The Child as Narrative Strategy in Miguel Street
Ryan Durgasingh

PART 2. UNSTABLE IDENTITIES
Child’s “I” and Other in Olive Senior’s Narratives of Self-Invention
Barbara Lalla
“How the Mirror Broke”: Deconstructing Colonial Fairy Tales in “I Remember Pampalam”
Giselle Rampaul
"What Child is This?": Same-Sex Desire among Children in the Anglophone Caribbean Short Story
Geraldine Elizabeth Skeete

Part 3. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
The Child and the Structure of Creoles, Pidgins and Signed Languages
Ben Braithwaite
"How Yuh Make a Story?": Narrative Development in Young Trinidadian Chidlren
Kathy-Ann Drayton

PART 4. PEDAGOGY
Black Heart/White Heart: The Chronicles of Narnia as Literary Text in a Creole Space
Nicha Selvon-Ramkissoon
Using For the Life of Laetitia to Teach Character Development to Form 3 Special Students
Karen Sanderson Cole
“We Supposed to Have Fun”: Voice and Resistance in the Primary School Classroom
Rowena Kalloo
Do Teachers Make Science Learning Fun and Relevant?
Rawatee Maharaj-Sharma
Contributors

“Childhood is largely an overlooked topic in the Caribbean, as is evident in the surprising dearth of publications devoted to it. And yet understanding childhood is crucial to the perpetuation and preservation of culture and necessary to the formation of stable and productive societies. . . . By examining childhood from a variety of disciplinary lenses, these chapters offer a variety of new perspectives on the importance of childhood as an area of critical enquiry and provide a foundation for further study and for effecting practical improvements in the lives of children.”