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A trial against time and trend : ska’s generational rhythmic statement of the oppressed
(2020-05-26)
In the depths of the underground soil, roots scatter wherever growth leads them, an expansion similar to the ones enslaved Africans went through, involuntary, establishing La Africanidad [The Africanness] in the Caribbean. ...
The power of discourse and the visual imagination in Caribbean resistance : the intertextuality between Josué “Jay” Fonseca Aponte (Puerto Rico) and Stanley Joseph Greaves (Guyana)
(2022-06-01)
--Ecclesiastes 1:9 states “…there is nothing new under the sun.” Thus, public corruption is not a recent phenomenon and neither is the act of denouncing it. The Caribbean has known public corruption for centuries. Similar ...
The twentieth century tragic slut : abjection and the reclamation of femme and queer bodies in Djuna Barnes' Nightwood
(2022-04-29)
At the turn of the century, the Nineteenth Century’s values and notions of love and romance stood at the brink of collapse. With the Twentieth Century came the First World War, and in its aftermath the beginnings of a group ...
The English language in local store naming in Puerto Rico : a sociolinguistic study
(2022-05-04)
Puerto Rico’s history and English becoming a prevalent and frequently used global language employed as a tool for economic growth has influenced islanders’ language perspectives and, as a result, there has been a constant ...
Censored pain : a look into Irene Vilar's Memoirs and the Birth Control Trials of 1956
(2022-06-06)
This paper offers a study of the first large scale human trials of the oral contraceptive that took place on the island of Puerto Rico during the 1950's, an analysis of the literature connected to these events and what it ...
The use of tonal indicators to reduce ambiguity in online computer-mediated communication : are they /j or /srs?
(2022-05-11)
This paper assesses a new phenomenon occurring within Computer-Mediated Communication on the social media platform Twitter. Due to the intonational ambiguity commonly found in written communication, writers have developed ...