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Sargasso, a peer-reviewed journal of literature, language, and culture edited at the University of Puerto Rico, publishes critical essays, interviews, book reviews, and some poems and short stories. The journal seeks submissions that have not been published elsewhere, including new translations of previous publications. Sargasso particularly welcomes material written by/about the people of the Caribbean region and its multiple diasporas. Unless otherwise specified, essays should conform to the guidelines of the MLA Handbook. Short stories should be kept to no more than 2,500 words in length, and poems should be kept to thirty lines. See http://humanidades. uprrp.edu/ingles/pubs/sargasso.htm for submission guidelines and additional information. For inquiries or electronic submission, write to: [email protected].
Postal Address: SARGASSO P.O. Box 22831, UPR Station San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-2831
Reflections on West Indian Literature: Talking About Culture María Cristina Rodríguez and Lowell Fiet, Issue Editors Marcos Pastrana, layout Christal Brown, front cover image Manuel Alfredo Quintero Belda, back cover image
Don E. Walicek, Editor Katherine Miranda, Contributing Editor Lowell Fiet, Founding Editor María Cristina Rodríguez, Book Review Editor
Editorial Board Jessica Adams, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Sally Everson, University of the Bahamas Mary Ann Gosser-Esquilin, Florida Atlantic University Eduardo Pérez Montijo, University of Puerto Rico, Arecibo Peter Roberts, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Ivette Romero, Marist College Felipe Smith, Tulane University
UPR Administration Agnes Bosch Irizarry, Interim Dean of Humanities, Río Piedras Campus Luis Ferrao, Interim Chancellor, Río Piedras Campus Darrel F. Hillman Barrera, Interim President of the University of Puerto Rico
For online resources, access to past issues, and purchase and subscription form visit: http://humanidades.uprrp.edu/ingles/pubs/sargasso.htm
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INTRODUCTION: Refections on West Indian Literature WILC 2015 ix Lowell Fiet and María Cristina Rodríguez…
ESSAYS Keja Valens 3 A Little Puerto Rican Food Culture…
Natalya Mills-Mayrena 23 Minshall’s Mas: (Re) introducing Street Theater in Contemporary Carnival of Trinidad…
Cristal Rosana Heffelfinger-Nieves 39 Battered Bodies, Aching Souls: The Representation of Pain in Malika Booker’s Pepper Seed…
Guillermo Rebollo-Gil 53 Have It Any Way You Like: Riffs on Poetry and the Political in Puerto Rico…
Rachel L. Mordecai 63 The Pathology of Sex and the Domestication of Desire in Zee Edgell’s In Times Like These…
Vanessa Vilches 75 Matergrafías en La muerte feliz de Williams Carlos Williams…
Mary Ann Gosser-Esquilín 87 Talk about a Little Ecocritical Culture: Guadeloupe as a Toxic Island?…
Paul Humphrey “El manto que cubre el mar”: Religion, Identity, and the Sea in Rita 109 Indiana’s La mucama de Omicunlé…
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REVIEWS Steve Beauclair 127 Dance on the Volcano by Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Translated by Kaiama L. Glover…
Catherine Den Tandt 129 San Juan Noir, edited by Mayra Santos-Febres…
David Lizardi Sierra 139 What She Go Do: Women in Afro-Trinidadian Music by Hope Munro…
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS… 147
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