Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean Book

Foreword   Anton Allahar     ix
Acknowledgments     xiii
Introduction: Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean   Holger Henke   Karl-Heinz Magister     xv
(Re-)Creating Homes in the Vernacular
Premigration Legacies and Transnational Identities: Afro-Surinamese and Indo-Surinamese in the Netherlands   Mies van Niekerk     3
The Many Voices of Caribbean Culture in New York City   Bettina E. Schmidt     23
Family Reunion Rituals of African-Caribbean Transnational Families: Instilling a Historical and Diasporic Consciousness   Constance R. Sutton     43
Performing Identities
Dancing around Dancehall: Popular Music and Pentecostal Identity in Transnational Jamaica and Haiti   Melvin L. Butler     63
Rituals, Journeys, and Modernity: Caribbean Spiritual Baptists in New York   Maarit Forde     101
Performing "Difference": Gossip in Olive Senior's Short Stories   Carol Bailey     123
"This Is My Vibes": Legitimizing Vernacular Expressions in Caribana   Lyndon Phillip     139
Writing Self, Other, and (Trans-)Nation in the Trans-Caribbean
Patrick Chamoiseau's Seascapes and the Trans-Caribbean Imaginary   Wendy Knepper     155
"A Local Habitation and a Name": Travelers, Migrants, Nomads of "Caribbean New York"in Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain   Karl-Heinz Magister     177
Playing Both Home and Away: National and Transnational Identities in the Work of Bruce St. John   Elaine Savory     219
The Amerindian Transnational Experience in Pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist's Tale   Tanya Shields     267
Readings from Aqui y Alla: Music, Commercialism, and the Latino-Caribbean Transnational Imaginary   Raphael Dalleo     299
The (Trans-)Nation (Dis-)Embodied
Like Sugar in Coffee: Third Wave Feminism and the Caribbean   Patricia Mohammed     321
Work That Body: Sexual Citizenship and Embodied Freedom   Mimi Sheller     345
Caribbean Cyberculture: Towards an Understanding of Gender, Sexuality, and Identity within the Digital Culture Matrix   Curwen Best     377
Index     399
Contributors     403