Crossing Shifting Boundaries

Fresh perspectives on Papiamentu and the literatures and cultures of the ABC-Islands

Edited by Nicholas Faraclas, Ronald Severing, Christa Weijer, Liesbeth Echteld.

Most of the contributions to this volume are updated versions of papers presented at the Eastern Caribbean Islands Cultures Conference (ECICC) held on the island of Curaçao in 2008. The ECICC 2008 call for papers invited researchers to present results of their work with the aim of eventually publishing a new volume on the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Dutch Leeward Islands Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, or the so-called ‘ABC Islands’. The participants responded enthusiastically to the call and the results are presented here in volume 1 of the proceedings of the conference. A small number of

articles are local contributions which were submitted on invitation by the editors after conference. This book, Leeward voices: Fresh perspectives on Papiamentu and the literatures and cultures of the ABC Islands, offers an exciting and diverse array of new points of view on language and culture in the ABC Islands.

Contact, Continuity, Convergence, and Complexity in the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the Greater Caribbean

Edited by Nicholas Faraclas, Ronald Severing, Christa Weijer, Elisabeth Echteld, Marsha Hinds- Layne

This book, Anansi’s Defiant Webs: Contact, Continuity, Convergence, and Complexity in the languages, Literatures, an Cultures of the Greater Caribbean is a collection of articles that present a critical perspective on the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Greater Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. The volume incorporates invited papers as well as presentations made to the 13th annual Eastern Caribbean Islands Cultures Conference (aka the ‘Islands in Between’ Conference) which was held at the Turkeyen Campus of the University of Guyana from 4 to 6 November 2011. The contributing authors include a wide range of voices old and new from the Caribbean and beyond.