Caribbean Without Borders is a university, located at English Department, College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, PO Box 23356, 00931-3356 San Juan, Puerto Rico

7th Graduate Student Conference:
Reframing Perceptions of the Greater Caribbean in Popular Media.

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Location :

English Department, College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, PO Box 23356, 00931-3356 San Juan

Added by Jopie, at 01 January 2020

Benitez-Rojo gives us a graphic description of the Caribbean as "an 'other' shape that keeps changing, with some objects born to light while others disappear into the womb of darkness.” This brings forth the idea that if we do not change and continue to focus on the cultural and linguistic fragmentation that has arisen from our colonized past, we run the risk of remaining static. It is time to go beyond the effects of colonization and reinterpret our past in order to re-envision our future. Let us embrace the idea of uninhibited unity and form our own futures.
The sixth Caribbean Without Borders Graduate Student Conference, sponsored by the English Department of the College of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras will be held April 6-8th, 2016. The conference welcomes graduate student papers/presentations in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Creole and any Caribbean language on the literatures, languages and cultures of the Caribbean.