This map is a geographical representation of the authors cited in Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s “The African Presence in Caribbean Literature”, Dadedalus. I have added some information present in Alison Donnell’s “’The African Presence in Caribbean Literature’ Revisited: Recovering the Politics of Imagined Co-Belonging 1930–2005″. Brathwaite distinguishes four kinds of written African literature in the Caribbean….

The cultural map I have created maps music development in Jamaica, with a focus on the 20th century. While music is something I am personally interested in, I also believe that the kind of music people produce is telling of their opinions, moods, (cultural) affiliations, and any type of tension or lack thereof that defines…

This collection of pictures is about the imaginary moments of the origin of Jamaican Creole represented in Zong!. Impressed by the variety of non-English languages in the book, I traced the foreign words listed in Glossary, located the words I can identify and numbered them in a code which combines page number and line number…

For my cultural map, I wanted to make a musical trip to the island of Puerto Rico. Among all the artists I decided to focus on the Puerto Rican composer Tite Curet Alonso. Tite Curet is one of the most important figures of salsa. He composed nearly 2000 salsa songs, boleros, and ballads. I chose…

My cultural map of Aruba takes the shape of a long poem that I have recorded and that takes the reader around the island as I know it. The poem is based on my personal memories. My parents used to live on Aruba from 1989 to 1993. I was not born at the time but…

This cultural map was based on various maps of Jamaica online and shifting between scales on Google Maps. The quotations are from chapters 1 and 3 of Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands by Stuart Hall, with Bill Schwarz (2017).

Borinquén or Puerto Rico: ¡Que Viva La Música!