Multiplex cultures and citizenships

by Francio Guadeloupe

"His dance was like a carefully placed explosive that destroyed the prison houses of race, gender, class, and ethnicity with which we imprison others and ourselves. His torso, his smile, his arms, his legs, moving with a syncopation that was majestic in its humbleness and humble in his majesty, told a story that these prison houses often make us forget: humankind is essentially a No to all categories of identity. he was still a Bahia man, a black man, a poor man, an oppressed man, a favela man, and more than likely a patriarchal man. But he was all this in a different way. these were identifications, not his essential identity (as if he had any). he was a verb not a noun. Pure movement, embodied differance - differing and deferring, not to be pigeon holed in anyway. His dancing touched me in a way that forced me to move out of the common senses that blinded me from seeing without truly seeing. And though we did not speak, he remained a stranger that i gazed at and he gazed back with his body, I thank him for giving me the sight that allows me to feel (and therefore to affectively see) the human beyond exclusionary identity labels."

This is the first paragraph of my new essay in the edited volume of Nicholas Faraclas which presents views about and from the Dutch Caribbean and beyond. Something I know Ini Statia, Rose Mary Allen, Gregory Richardson, Ieteke Witteveen, Guno Jones, and Michiel van Kempen, among others, have been on the forefront in promoting. Theirs is a critical scholarship on the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Check it out peeps:

Multiplex cultures and citizenships: multiple perspectives on language, literature, education and society in the ABC-Islands and beyond

Ed. Nicholas Faraclas a.o.

Uitgave:Willemstad: FPI, Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma, 2012, Omvang 445 pagina’s

2011 new volume on cultures of the ABC Islands

New call for papers
2011 volume on the Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the ABC Islands

The University of the Netherlands Antilles and the Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma are once again interested in publishing a new set of papers on the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the ABC Islands. Our goal this coming year is to have this next volume printed and ready for distribution by November 2011. You and any of your colleagues on the ABC islands who you think might be interested are invited to take advantage of this excellent chance to share the exciting work that you are doing with other scholars worldwide.

The deadline for you to submit your paper for this publication is 1 april 2011. The paper may be anywhere from 4 to 10 pages in length and may be written in English, Dutch, Spanish, or Papiamentu/o. We will take care of translations into English. If you are able to do so, please submit your work formatted according to the following guidelines. (If you are not able to reformat the work, submit it anyway, and we will do it for you):

1) A Word file of a total length of from 4 to 10 pages
2) 13 point New Times Roman font
3) A4 paper size (rather than US 'Letter' size)
4) If possible, use 1.15 interlinear spacing. If not, use single spacing.
5) 1 inch margins on all 4 sides and bottom center page numbering
6) as a separate file or files: A very short bio (maximum 75 words). Please include your email address at the end of the bio, and a digital face photo. If we already have a bio and/or a photo of you from a previous volume, you do not need to send new ones.
7) please sends papers, bios and photos to: nickfaraclas@yahoo.com

Please note that the paper itself should be submitted as w Word file (not a PDF or Word Perfect file) by 1 april 2011. We would also like to remind you that you may go ahead and send the paper file immediately and send the bio and photo file(s) later. Please don't let the logistics of writing a bio and digitalizing a photo delay the process of sending your paper to us. Go ahead and send the paper now and the bio and the photo later.

We have considerable experience in minimizing the time from submission to publication. If we receive sufficient numbers of papers by 1 april 2011, we should be able to have another high quality peer reviewed volume published by November 2011.

Here’s to another successful volume,

The Editorial Team: Nick Faraclas (Universidad de Puerto Rico); Ronnie Severing (Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma); Christa Weijer (Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma); and Liesbeth Echteld (University of the Netherlands Antilles)

Twee congresbundels van FPI

De Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma (FPI) bracht twee congresbundels uit onder redactie van Nicholas Faraclas, Ronnie Severing, Christa Weijer en Liesbeth Echteld.


Re-centering the 'Islands in Between'
Re-thinking the languages, literatures and cultures of the Eastern Caribbean and the African diaspora. The contributions to this volume are updated versions of papers presented at the Eastern Caribbean Islands Cultures Conference (ECICC) held on the island of Curaçao in 2008. The ECICC 2008 call for papers invited researches to present results of their work on the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Eastern Caribbean, with the aim of eventually publishing a volume of conference presentations.

Leeward voices
Most of the contributions to this volume are updated versions of papers presented at the Eastern Caribbean Islands Cultures Conference (ECICC) held on the island of Curaçao in 2008. The ECICC 2008 call for papers invited researches to present results of their work with the aim of eventually publishing a new volume on the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Dutch Leeward Islands Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, or the so-called ‘ABC’ Islands.