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-THE
PEOPLE --
When
in France do as the French do! In Guadeloupe
the locals
consider themselves French, and proud of it! Everything is typically
French: the thick rich coffee, the language, the cars, the perfume,
and, of course, the Euros, the official French currency, nowadays.
Even though Guadeloupe lies in the eastern Caribbean, it seems
a person
is in France when arriving on the Island!
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Approximately
100 people attended the Guadeloupe
Conference
at Point-a-Pitre, Nov 14-16, 2002
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--THE
PLACE --
Guadeloupe
is a French overseas department with an estimated population
(1992) of 409,000 and an area of approximately
687 square miles. It was host this year to the annual Eastern
Caribbean
Conference
titled "Islands in Between." A number of scholars, educators,
linguists, and literary critics presented papers on various subjects,
mostly on language and literature of the Anglo and Franco Caribbean.
One
of our librarians from Santa Fe Community College, Serafin Roldan-Santiago,
was invited to present a paper titled, "Uses of the Oxford
English Dictionary in the analysis of Frank Colymore's Barbadian
Glossary." The approach was innovative and was well received
by the conference attendees.
The
following images represent some moments during the conference. A
partial list has been included of some of the papers presented during
the November 14-16 conference in Guadeloupe
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Guadeloupe’s
Cultural Minister and the President of Universite de Guyane opened up
the Conference
The first
day of the Conference at Point-a-Pitre with the fellows from Emory University
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A SELECTION OF CONFERENCE PAPERS -
| Cynthia
A. Chambers, U of Texas: |
"Cannibal
Cartographies" |
| Marc
Brudzinski, U of Miami: |
"Creolisation et Opacite" |
| Valerie
Loichot, Emory Univ: |
"Saint John Perse's Shipwrecked Geneologies: Atavistic
or Creole?
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| Fily
Kouadio, U des Antilles: |
"Derek Walcott et Edward K. Brathwite: La Reconstruction
Identitaire par la Therapies de la Mnemoarcheolgie" |
| Thomas
W. Krise, US Air Force A: |
"Caribbean Literary History: Who Decides?" |
| Don
Hill, State U of New York: |
"Manifestations
of West African Water Spirits in Carriacou, Grenada" |
| Carmen
Gillespie, U of Toledo: |
"Performing
Gender: An Interview with Diva Alexandre de Bevoir, A Bajan
Transvestite"
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| Leah
Rosenberg, U of Florida: |
"Queering
Columbus: the Homoerotic Critique of Colonialism in the Development
of Trinidadian National Literature"
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| Jo
Anne Harris, U of Puerto Rico: |
"Digital
Scholarship - New Options for Globalizing Caribbean Resources"
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| Aida
Rodriguez, U of Puerto Rico: |
"The
Caribbean Wounding in Derek Walcott's Omeros and Dionne
Brand's In Another
Place Not Here "
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| Joan
Fayer, U of Puerto Rico: |
“Carriacou Shakespeare Mas" [film] |
| Serafin
Roldan, Santa Fe CC: |
"Use
of the Electronic Oxford English Dictionary
in the Study of the Barbadian Vernacular"
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A bit of recess
and coffee drinking |
Attendees came
from various countries, regions, and universities and colleges |
Full packed
salon on the 2nd day of Conference
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Serafin Roldan
(SFCC) presenting his paper on the first day of the Conference |
Sally Evers,
U of Puerto Rico Aida Rodriguez, U of Puerto Rico
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Serafin Roldan,
Santa Fe Comm College Maria Cristina Rodriguez, U of Puerto Rico |
Downtown Point-a-Pitre,
Guadeloupe, FWI
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Near one of
the Piers, Point-a-Pitre |
One of the main
drags, downtown Guadeloupe
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