Volume 13 (1997)
The Caribbean(s) Redefined
Article I
THE CULT OF THE GODDESS
MITA
ON THE EVE OF A NEW MILLENNIUM:
A SOCIO-ANTHROPOLOGICAL LOOK
AT A CARIBBEAN URBAN RELIGION
Erik Camayd-Freixas
Florida International University
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Article II
CARIBBEAN
IDENTITIES RECONSTRUCTED AND REDEFINED
IN WOMEN'S NARRATIVE TEXTS:
MARIE CHAUVET, MYRIAM WARNER-VIEYRA,
AND ANA LYDIA VEGA
Mary Ann Gosser Esquilín
Florida Atlantic University
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Article III
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Article IV
MULTIRACIAL IDENTITIES
IN TRINIDAD AND GUYANA:
EXALTATION AND AMBIGUITY
Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar
University of Toronto
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Article V
THE POST-COLONIAL TOURIST AND/IN THE CARIBBEAN
Jaume Martí-Olivella
Allegheny College
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Article VI
MERENGUE AND THE
POLITICS OF NATIONHOOD AND IDENTITY
IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Gus Puleo
Columbia University
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Article VII
POSTCOLONIAL ENCOUNTERS
AND THE CARIBBEAN DIASPORA:
"ENCANCARANUBLADO" BY ANA LYDIA VEGA
Fernando Valerio-Holguín
Allegheny College
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Vélez, Diana. "We are (not) in This Together: The Caribbean Imaginary in 'Encancaranublado' by Ana Lydia Vega." Callaloo 17.3 (Summer 1994): 826-33.
Williams, Patrick and Laura Chrisman. Eds. Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.Return to Article Index
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