Border Transgression and Reconfiguration of Caribbean Spaces

EditorsMyriam Moïse is Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies at the Université des Antilles in Martinique, LC2S Caribbean Social Sciences Research Lab (CNRS, UMR 8053).Fred Réno is Professor of Political Science at the Université des Antilles in Guadeloupe, LC2S Caribbean Social Sciences Research Lab (CNRS, UMR 8053).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. ‘Borderisation’ versus ‘Creolisation’: A Caribbean game of identities and borders.- 3. Labouring on the Border of Inclusion/Exclusion: Undocumented CARICOM Migrants in the Barbadian Economy.- 4. Caribbean spaces of migration and transnational networks: The case of the Haitian Diaspora.- 5. Borders and the question of citizenship: The Case of the Dominican Republic and Haiti.- 6. The Seeds of Anger: Contemporary issues in forced migration across the Dominican-Haitian border.- 7. ‘When dialogue is no longer possible, what still exists is the mystery of hope’: migration and citizenship in the Dominican Republic in film, literature and performance.- 8. To Be or not to Be… Giddy – Walking the Language (Border) Line.- 9. Blurring the Borders of the Human: Hybridized Bodies in Literature and Folklore.- 10. Borderless Spaces and Alternative Subjectivities in Three Fictional Narratives by Diasporic Caribbean Women Writers.- 11. Reimagining the Nation: Gender and Bodily Transgression in Breath, Eyes, Memory.