Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada: The New Cultural Neighbourhood -- I: RENEGOTIATING BELIEF SYSTEMS -- The Pope Must Have Been Drunk, The King of Castile a Madman: Culture as Actuality, and the Caribbean Rethinking Modernity -- A Conflict of Theological Interpretations: Baroque Scholasticism versus Liberation Theology -- Tell out King Rasta Doctrine Around the Whole World: Rastafari in Global Perspective -- De la marginalisation à la déterritorialisation du Rastafari -- II: WRITERS BETWEEN WORLDS -- Caribbean Canadian Writers : A Literary Forum Austin Clarke, Cecil Foster, Cyril Dabydeen, Dany Laferrière -- Notes on Latin American-Canadian Literature -- Latin American Writers in Canada: Integration and Distance, Writing at the Crossroads -- Writing in Exile: Writing Nowhere for Nobody? -- Message from the Crossroads -- The Writer in Exile -- Aquí estamos: An Overview of Latin American Writing in Quebec Today -- Le Théâtre de I'Altérité dans la Compagnie des arts Exilio -- III: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY WRITERS -- Redefining the Centre: Austin Clarke and Other West Indian Canadian Writers -- Narrative Quilting in Banana Bottom and Voyage in the Dark -- Nature and Imagination: The Bestiary of Dulce María Loynaz -- Poetic Discourse in Babylon: The Poetry of Dionne Brand -- Maitre ou Mentor: L'Ombre de Glissant dans Texaco de Patrick Chamoiseau -- Banished Between Two Worlds: Exiles in Chilean Canadian Literature -- Women's Word: From Resistance to Challenging the Patriarchal Culture -- "L'Amérique c'est moi": Dany Laferrière and the Borderless Text -- IV: INDIGENOUS CULTURES: CREATIVE ENCOUNTERS -- Culture and Education in Post-colonial Development: A Southern Andean Study -- Yekmaseualkopan: Y-a-t-il une manière moderne d'être nahua?.

Art as a Formative Force in Latin America: The Reclamation of the Indigenous and Popular Past in the Art of Nicaragua -- Beyond Development and Modernity: Regenerating the Art of Living -- V: POPULAR CULTURE IN THE HOOD -- Haitian Music in the Global System -- Caribbean Popular Music and Civil Society: The Calypso Arena as Voice of the People -- Come to Jamaica and Feel All Right: Tourism, Colonial Discourse and Cultural Resistance -- Constructing Caribbean Culture in Toronto: The Representation of Caribana -- Cartooning and Development in the Caribbean -- Education and Popular Culture in the Caribbean: Youth Resistance in a Period of Economic Uncertainty -- Myth and Signification in Perry Hensell's The Harder They Come -- Argentine Commercial Cinema: Industry, Society and Aesthetics, 1983-1989 -- VI: RETHINKING IDENTITIES -- Identity and Differences in the Caribbean Diaspora: Case study from Metropolitan Toronto -- L'expression d'une identité à travers la poésie et les chansons au Nicaragua -- Beautiful Lies: Legitimation of the National Identity in Two Series of Indianist Poems of the Dominican Republic, 1877-1882 -- VII: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Histoire et Littérature: La représentation de l'année 1938 dans deux romans chiliens -- La Guadeloupe dans l'idéarium et les stratégies du Découvreur: nouvelles approches -- VIII: TOWARD AN ELECTRONIC HOOD -- Navigating the Text: An Exploration in Comparative Cross-Cultural Epistemology -- Notes on Contributors.