Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Reassembling the Fragments: The Burden of the Antilles
Paula Morgan PART 1 . TRIBUTES AND CRITICAL APPRAISALS
Challenging the Old and Exploring the New: A Tribute to Ian Robertson
Donald Winford
Barbara Lalla: A Transdisciplinary Intellectual
Velma Pollard
Towards a “Wholeness of Vision”: Criticism Lalla’s Way
Jennifer Rahim
Code-Switching Phenomena in Oral and Scribal Discourse: Lalla’s Contribution
Valerie Youssef
Restoring the Shattered Nation-Family in Lalla’s Arch of Fire
Paula Morgan
Ian Robertson: Re-Visioning the Creole Voice
Valerie Youssef
Possible Caribbeans: Assembling the Fictional Voice
Barbara Lalla
PART 2. TRAJECTORIES OF CREOLIZATION
Fragments, Centres and Margins
Lise Winer
A Comparison between the Development of Palenquero Caribbean Creole and Swahili-Spanish Interlanguage
María Landa Buil
Postcolonial Historiography: Brereton and Naipaul Documenting Ethnic Histories over and against National Paradigms
Nivedita Misra
The Role of Sociohistorical Factors in the Processes of Creolization: Evidence from Amerindian Languages
Ian Robertson
Annotated Bibliography of the Works of Barbara Lalla and Ian Robertson
Niala Dwarika-Bhagat, Karen Eccles, Michelle Gill and Marsha Winter
Contributors