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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
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