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This volume brings together scholars working in different
languages-Creole, French, English, Spanish-and modes of cultural
production-literature, art, film, music-to suggest how best to
model courses that impart the rich, vibrant, and multivalent
aspects of the Caribbean in the classroom. Essays focus on
discussing how best to cross languages, histories, and modes of
discourse. Instead of relying on available paradigms that depend on
Western ways of thinking, the essays recommend methods to develop a
pan-Caribbean perspective in relation to notions of the self, uses
of language, gender hierarchies, and ideas of nationhood.
Contributors represent various disciplines, work in one of the
several languages of the Caribbean, and offer essays that reflect
different cadres of expertise.
This volume brings together scholars working in different
languages-Creole, French, English, Spanish-and modes of cultural
production-literature, art, film, music-to suggest how best to
model courses that impart the rich, vibrant, and multivalent
aspects of the Caribbean in the classroom. Essays focus on
discussing how best to cross languages, histories, and modes of
discourse. Instead of relying on available paradigms that depend on
Western ways of thinking, the essays recommend methods to develop a
pan-Caribbean perspective in relation to notions of the self, uses
of language, gender hierarchies, and ideas of nationhood.
Contributors represent various disciplines, work in one of the
several languages of the Caribbean, and offer essays that reflect
different cadres of expertise.
Aqui and Alla: Transnational Dominican Theater and Performance
explores how contemporary Dominican theater and performance artists
portray a sense of collective belonging shaped by the transnational
connections between the homeland and the diaspora. Through close
readings of plays and performances produced in the Dominican
Republic and the United States in dialogue with theories of theater
and performance, migration theory, and literary, cultural, and
historical studies, this book situates theater and performance in
debates on Dominican history and culture and the impact of
migration on the changing character of national identity from end
of the twentieth century to the present. By addressing local
audiences of island-based and diasporic Dominicans with stories of
characters who are shaped by both places, the theatrical
performances analyzed in this book operate as a democratizing force
on conceptions of Dominican identity and challenge assumptions
about citizenship and national belonging. Likewise, the artists'
bi-national perspectives and work methods challenge the paradigms
that have traditionally framed Latin(o) American theater studies.
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