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This book examines the enactment of gendered in/equalities across diverse Cultural forms, turning to the insights produced through the specific modes of onto-epistemological enquiry of embodied performance. It builds on work from the... more
This book examines the enactment of gendered in/equalities across diverse Cultural forms, turning to the insights produced through the specific modes of onto-epistemological enquiry of embodied performance. It builds on work from the GRACE (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe) project and offers both theoretical and methodological analyses of an array of activities and artworks. The performative manifestations discussed include theatre, installations, social movements, mega-events, documentaries, and literary texts from multiple geopolitical locales. Engaging with the key concepts of re-enactment and relationality, the contributions explore the ways in which in/equalities are relationally re-produced in and through individual and collective bodies. This multi- and trans-disciplinary collection of essays creates fruitful dialogues within and beyond Performance Studies, sitting at the crossroads of ethnography, event studies, social movements, visual studies, critical discourse analysis, and contemporary approaches to textualities emerging from post-colonial and feminist studies.
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Building Interdisciplinary Knowledge. Approaches to English and American Studies in Spain brings together a selection of the most stimulating scholarly papers and round tables presented at the Annual Conference of the Spanish Association... more
Building Interdisciplinary Knowledge. Approaches to English and American Studies in Spain brings together a selection of the most stimulating scholarly papers and round tables presented at the Annual Conference of the Spanish Association for English and American Studies, held at the University of Oviedo on November 13- 15, 2013.
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This volume evaluates the vitality of the term ‘Afropolitan’ within the fields of African and Afro-diasporic studies. A hotly debated and malleable term, its wide circulation has allowed for Afropolitanism to become a contested space for... more
This volume evaluates the vitality of the term ‘Afropolitan’ within the fields of African and Afro-diasporic studies. A hotly debated and malleable term, its wide circulation has allowed for Afropolitanism to become a contested space for critical inquiry. The contributions to this book are representative of the lively discussions that Afropolitan aesthetics, identity politics and Afro(cosmo)politanisms have sparked in recent years. The book aims to continue the debates around these concepts foregrounded by earlier works in the fields of postcolonial literature, African cultural studies, and studies of diaspora and transnationalism. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.
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«Performeras del Dominicanyork» ahonda en el análisis de la formación de la identidad cultural en el marco de las experiencias diaspóricas y su representación en el teatro contemporáneo. Partiendo del análisis de las obras de Josefina... more
«Performeras del Dominicanyork» ahonda en el análisis de la formación de la identidad cultural en el marco de las experiencias diaspóricas y su representación en el teatro contemporáneo. Partiendo del análisis de las obras de Josefina Báez y Chiqui Vicioso, dos artistas que comparten la experiencia de la migración a la ciudad de Nueva York, se estudia las diferentes formas en que el género, la raza, la etnicidad y la localización geográfica interactúan en la formación de identidades transculturales. Al centrarse en la producción de discursos étnicos en dos áreas geográficas distintas pero interconectadas -el Caribe y Nueva York- se revelan convergencias y divergencias en las producciones culturales caribeñas y latinas, así como la presencia simultánea de modernismos y post-modernismos en el mundo post-colonial.
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This book examines the enactment of gendered in/equalities across diverse Cultural forms, turning to the insights produced through the specific modes of onto-epistemological enquiry of embodied performance. It builds on work from the... more
This book examines the enactment of gendered in/equalities across diverse Cultural forms, turning to the insights produced through the specific modes of onto-epistemological enquiry of embodied performance. It builds on work from the GRACE (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe) project and offers both theoretical and methodological analyses of an array of activities and artworks. The performative manifestations discussed include theatre, installations, social movements, mega-events, documentaries, and literary texts from multiple geopolitical locales. Engaging with the key concepts of re-enactment and relationality, the contributions explore the ways in which in/equalities are relationally re-produced in and through individual and collective bodies. This multi- and trans-disciplinary collection of essays creates fruitful dialogues within and beyond Performance Studies, sitting at the crossroads of ethnography, event studies, social movements, visual studies, critical discourse analysis, and contemporary approaches to textualities emerging from post-colonial and feminist studies.
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In their latest novel, The Death of Vivek Oji (2020), Nigerian author Akwaeke Emezi delves into the exploration of the violent death of one of its protagonists, Vivek Oji. Through three different narrative voices--that of Vivek, who will... more
In their latest novel, The Death of Vivek Oji (2020), Nigerian author Akwaeke Emezi delves into the exploration of the violent death of one of its protagonists, Vivek Oji. Through three different narrative voices--that of Vivek, who will later become Nmedi, that of their cousin Osita, and that of a third omniscient narrator--readers accompany Vivek's mother, Kavita, in her quest to discover the circumstances surrounding her son's killing. Even though Emezi's novel is by no means a traditional detection story, as there is no official investigation of the crime and Kavita's role as self-appointed detective is only partially central to the story, Durá-Almarza suggests that there are several elements that allow for a reading of the text as a feminist actualization of what Sam Naidu has identified as African noir. After looking at the ways in which non-normative genders and desires operate as technologies of strange(r)ness in the novel and how, through these, the "uncomfortable truths" that serve as articulating motifs in noir affect (Breu) emerge, he examines the ways in which the necropolitical powers work through hegemonic gender regimes, condemning its LGBTQI citizens to "near lives" (Stanley) and "slow deaths" (Berlant).
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«Performeras del Dominicanyork» ahonda en el análisis de la formación de la identidad cultural en el marco de las experiencias diaspóricas y su representación en el teatro contemporáneo. Partiendo del análisis de las obras de Josefina... more
«Performeras del Dominicanyork» ahonda en el análisis de la formación de la identidad cultural en el marco de las experiencias diaspóricas y su representación en el teatro contemporáneo. Partiendo del análisis de las obras de Josefina Báez y Chiqui Vicioso, dos artistas que comparten la experiencia de la migración a la ciudad de Nueva York, se estudia las diferentes formas en que el género, la raza, la etnicidad y la localización geográfica interactúan en la formación de identidades transculturales. Al centrarse en la producción de discursos étnicos en dos áreas geográficas distintas pero interconectadas -el Caribe y Nueva York- se revelan convergencias y divergencias en las producciones culturales caribeñas y latinas, así como la presencia simultánea de modernismos y post-modernismos en el mundo post-colonial.
For more than ten years, Josefina Báez (La Romana, 1960) has been exploring on stage the complexity of Dominican experiences in the United States. In her Dominicanish, first performanced in 1999, and published as a performance text in... more
For more than ten years, Josefina Báez (La Romana, 1960) has been exploring on stage the complexity of Dominican experiences in the United States. In her Dominicanish, first performanced in 1999, and published as a performance text in 2000, Báez persona embodies the struggles of migrant communities seeking to come to terms with their dislocated sense of identity. Through a rich combination multiple textual and visual art forms, and playfully intermingling elements from different cultural systems, Báez is able to create an inspiring piece of work that far transcends traditional approaches to the formation of ethnic communities and identities in glocalized environments. Drawing on post-colonial and diaspora studies theorizations, and on the concept of transculturation as developed by Latino/a and Latin American Cultural Studies, this paper seeks to bring to light the myriad ways in which the textual and corporeal elements in Dominicanish put forward a nuanced understanding of the cont...
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The Dominican American community in New York is perhaps one of the best examples of how processes of transculturation are affecting traditional definitions of ethnic identification. Given the intense economic, social and cultural... more
The Dominican American community in New York is perhaps one of the best examples of how processes of transculturation are affecting traditional definitions of ethnic identification. Given the intense economic, social and cultural transnational exchanges between the island and the USA from the 1960s, Dominicanyorks have been challenging the illusion of homogeneity in the definition of Americanness for decades, creating transnational social networks that transcend traditional national and ethnographic boundaries. The theatrical works of Josefina Báez, a Dominican American performer living in New York, and Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso, a Dominican poet and playwright who lived and worked in the US metropolis for decades before moving back to the Dominican Republic, lyrically explore issues of diaspora, identity and migration and the impact these phenomena might have in the lives of migrant Dominican women. Presenting diasporic experiences from two differing but interconnected locales – N...
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This book brings together a complete set of approaches to works by female authors that articulate the black Atlantic in relation to the interplay of race, class, and gender. The chapters provide the grounds to (en)gender a more complex... more
This book brings together a complete set of approaches to works by female authors that articulate the black Atlantic in relation to the interplay of race, class, and gender. The chapters provide the grounds to (en)gender a more complex understanding of the scattered geographies of the African diaspora in the Atlantic basin. The variety of approaches displayed bears witness to the vitality of a field that, over the years, has become a diasporic formation itself as it incorporates critical insights and theoretical frameworks from multiple disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities, thus exposing the manifold character of (black) diasporic interconnections within and beyond the Atlantic. Focusing on a wide array of contemporary literary and performance texts by women writers and performers from diverse locations including the Caribbean, Canada, Africa, the US, and the UK, chapters visit genres such as performance art, the novel, science fiction, short stories, and music. For...
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The Dominican American community in New York is perhaps one of the best examples of how processes of transculturation are affecting traditional definitions of ethnic identification. Given the intense economic, social and cultural... more
The Dominican American community in New York is perhaps one of the best examples of how processes of transculturation are affecting traditional definitions of ethnic identification. Given the intense economic, social and cultural transnational exchanges between the island and the USA from the 1960s, Dominicanyorks have been challenging the illusion of homogeneity in the definition of Americanness for decades, creating transnational social networks that transcend traditional national and ethnographic boundaries. The theatrical works of Josefina Báez, a Dominican American performer living in New York, and Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso, a Dominican poet and playwright who lived and worked in the US metropolis for decades before moving back to the Dominican Republic, lyrically explore issues of diaspora, identity and migration and the impact these phenomena might have in the lives of migrant Dominican women. Presenting diasporic experiences from two differing but interconnected locales – New York and the Dominican Republic – these plays offer two complementary views on the ways in which ethnicity, race, social class, age and geopolitical location interact in the formation of transcultural identities, thus contributing to develop a hemispheric approach to the study of identity formation in the Americas.