Nicholas G. Faraclas is a Professor in Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.Sally J. Delgado is a certified teacher and Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus.

• ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Post-colonial Linguistics and Post-creole CreolisticsNicholas G. Faraclas and Sally J. DelgadoChapter 2: A Subaltern Overview of Early Colonial Contact in the Afro-Atlantic: Renegades, Maroons and the Sugar StoryNicholas G. FaraclasChapter 3: Sociohistorical Matrices for the Emergence of Afro-Atlantic ‘Creoles’ and other pre-1800 Colonial Era Contact Repertoires and VarietiesNicholas G. Faraclas and Sally J. DelgadoChapter 4: Renegades, Raiders, Loggers and Traders in the Early Colonial Contact Zones of the Western CaribbeanSally J. DelgadoChapter 5: ‘Arawak’, ‘Carib’ and ‘Garifuna’: Indigenous Trans-/Pluri-linguality versus Imperial Myth-making in the Afro-AtlanticFernando Y. Alvarado Benítez and Nicholas G. FaraclasChapter 6: Jamaican Maroon Spirit Language, Krio and CryptolectIan HancockChapter 7: Conceptual Construal, Convergence and the Creole LexiconMicah Corum