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| Title: | Re/negotiating interculturalism: Africa in Caribbean dance performances |
| Author: | Igweonu, Kene |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Periodical: | African Performance Review |
| Volume: | 2 |
| Issue: | 2-3 |
| Pages: | 103-124 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Africa Caribbean |
| Subjects: | dance Afro-Caribbeans African culture culture contact |
| Abstract: | This paper examines the enduring influence of Africa on African-Caribbean culture and performance traditions, underscoring the need to recognize African-Caribbean culture as a unique cultural manifestation by drawing on Joseph Roach's concept of the circum-Atlantic. It renegotiates intercultural theory, vis-à-vis the cultural exchange between Africa and the Caribbean. At the same time, it examines how African-Caribbean performances challenge the notion of African authenticity, while retaining a genealogical link to its African past. It is hoped that the discussion of African dance in a trans-national context would clarify the treatment of the term intercultural, particularly ways in which trans-national dispersions of African forms have taken them in new directions. The paper underlines the compelling link between African and African-Caribbean performance aesthetics, but also presents a situation in which notions of own and foreign are both dispelled in performance. It also attempts to develop Osita Okagbue's vision of a new intercultural critical terminology that will be useful in describing the unique interaction between African and African-Caribbean performance cultures through a proposed notion of interactional diffusion. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |