This dossier seeks to make the Indian Caribbean more visible and more pertinent to critical debates within Caribbean discourses. Few studies have undertaken serious analyses of Indian Caribbean creative expression, and most ignore the newness and complex fusions that characterize music, dance, and visual cultures in the postindenture diaspora. We endeavor to nuance conversations around marginalized Caribbean cultural production and multilocal identity, understanding the arts as useful historical archives. An overview of Indian indentureship precedes the presentation of the articles, which provide deep analyses that critically address these issues: how Indian identity is expressed and debated in performative and artistic practices, including LGBTQ challenges to categories of race and gender; what comparative analyses reveal about continuity, change, and exchange across the Indian Caribbean diaspora; how racial and cultural alterities are resolved within an African “creole” and/or multicultural framework; and how orientations to India, citizenship, and transnational belonging are expressed and processed. Resumen Este dossier busca hacer el Caribe indio mas visible y mas pertinente en los debates criticos en los discursos caribenos. Pocos estudios han realizado analisis serios de la expresion creativa del Caribe indio y la mayoria ignora la novedad y las complejas fusiones que caracterizan la musica, la danza y las culturas visuales en la diaspora posterior al periodo de la mano de obra importada no abonada. Nos esforzamos por matizar las conversaciones en torno a la produccion cultural caribena marginada y la identidad multilocal, entendiendo las artes como archivos historicos utiles. Una vision general de la contratacion de trabajadores de la India precede a la presentacion de los articulos, los cuales proporcionan analisis profundos que abordan criticamente estos temas: como se expresa y se debate la identidad india en las practicas performativas y artisticas, incluyendo los desafios LGBTQ a las categorias de raza y genero; que revelan los analisis comparativos sobre la continuidad, el cambio y el intercambio en toda la diaspora india caribena; como se resuelven las alteridades raciales y culturales dentro de un "creole" africano y/o un marco multicultural; y como se expresan y procesan las orientaciones a la India, la ciudadania y la pertenencia transnacional.
本档案旨在使印第安加勒比地区更加引人注目,并与加勒比话语中的关键辩论更加相关。很少有研究对印第安加勒比人的创造性表达进行认真的分析,而且大多数研究都忽略了契约后散居的音乐、舞蹈和视觉文化的新颖性和复杂的融合。我们努力围绕边缘化的加勒比文化生产和多地方认同进行细微的对话,将艺术理解为有用的历史档案。在介绍文章之前,对印度契约的概述提供了深入的分析,批判性地解决了这些问题:印度身份是如何在表演和艺术实践中表达和辩论的,包括LGBTQ对种族和性别类别的挑战;比较分析揭示了印度加勒比移民的连续性、变化和交流;如何在非洲“克里奥尔”和/或多元文化框架内解决种族和文化差异;以及对印度、公民身份和跨国归属的取向是如何表达和处理的。Resumen埃斯特档案战战兢兢的el水虎鱼做殖民地土著mas可见y mas pertinente在洛杉矶辩论criticos在洛杉矶discursos caribenos。Pocos工作室实现了对表现形式的分析,创造性的caricari的创作,无知的mayoria的创作,新颖的创作,融合的音乐,舞蹈的创作,视觉文化的创作,散居的创作。通过多地方的文化交流和文化文化的生产,我们可以了解到这一点,同时也可以了解到历史档案的重要性。Una视力一般de la la contratacion总工会宣布”印度之前洛杉矶presentacion de los危象,洛杉矶哪种proporcionan分析profundos, abordan criticamente来说特马:科莫se expresa y se辩论la identidad印度在拉斯维加斯practicas performativas y artisticas,包括洛杉矶抽烟desafios las属于de raza y genero同性恋群体;对印度移民与移民之间的关系进行比较分析。Como的结果是种族和文化的交替,例如联合国“克里奥尔”非洲和联合国“马可”多元文化;我的意思是说,我的意思是说,我的意思是说,我的意思是说,我的意思是说,我的意思是说,我的意思是说,我的意思是说,我的意思是说,我的意思是说,我的意思是说,
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Table of Contents MARLAS DOSSIER: From Indenture to Double Diaspora: Music, Film, and Visual Art of the Indian Caribbean
MARLAS档案目录:从契约到双重散居:印度加勒比海的音乐、电影和视觉艺术
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Enslaved Africans were taken to Venezuela as part of the transatlantic slave trade, and their descendants constitute a minority population that has been marginalized, discriminated against, and excluded from access to resources and the national identity. This study explores ways in which Afro-Venezuelans resisted oppression and survived by employing their knowledge, skills, and cultural memory. As a case in point, we examine the maintenance of Afro-Venezuelan cultural traditions in Barlovento, an area to which enslaved Africans were imported to work on large cacao estates and whose descendants now constitute the majority ethnic population in the region, with cultural traditions that uniquely identify it. Through the application of spiritual and cultural memory, Barloventenos show resolve within the construct of institutionalized racism by utilizing a form of double consciousness. The Barlovento region represents a strong continuity of Central West African traditions within Venezuelan culture in the variety of music, instrumentation, dance styles, and lingual retentions, which serve as the chief basis for this analysis. This research assesses these various forms of Afro-Venezuelan culture and how they have been used as a form of resistance to invisibilization and institutional racism. Findings are based on historical research and field work conducted between 2010 and 2019. Resumen Africanos esclavizados fueron llevados a Venezuela como parte de la trata transatlantica de esclavos, y sus descendientes constituyen una poblacion minoritaria que ha sido marginada, discriminada y excluida del acceso a los recursos y de la identidad nacional. Este estudio explora las medidas usadas por los afrovenezolanos para resistir la opresion y sobrevivir al implementar sus conocimientos, habilidades y memoria cultural. Como ejemplo, examinamos el mantenimiento de las tradiciones culturales afrovenezolanas en Barlovento, una zona a la que los africanos esclavizados fueron importados para trabajar en grandes fincas de cacao y cuyos descendientes ahora constituyen la poblacion etnica mayoritaria de la region, con tradiciones culturales que la identifican de manera unica. A traves de la aplicacion de la memoria espiritual y cultural, los barloventenos mostraron su firmeza ante el racismo institucionalizado mediante la utilizacion de una forma de doble conciencia. La region de Barlovento representa una fuerte continuidad de las tradiciones de Africa Occidental Central dentro de la cultura venezolana en la variedad de musica, instrumentacion, estilos de baile y retenciones linguisticas, los cuales sirven como la base principal para este analisis. Esta investigacion evalua estas diversas formas de cultura afrovenezolana y su uso como formas de resistencia a la invisibilizacion y al racismo institucional. Los hallazgos se basan en la investigacion historica y el trabajo de campo realizado entre 2010 y 2019.
作为跨大西洋奴隶贸易的一部分,被奴役的非洲人被带到委内瑞拉,他们的后代构成了一个被边缘化、被歧视、被排除在获取资源和国家身份之外的少数群体。本研究探讨了非裔委内瑞拉人如何利用他们的知识、技能和文化记忆抵抗压迫并生存下来。作为一个恰当的例子,我们研究了在巴洛文托维持非裔委内瑞拉文化传统的情况。被奴役的非洲人被进口到这个地区,在大型可可庄园工作,他们的后代现在构成了该地区的多数民族人口,具有独特的文化传统。通过对精神和文化记忆的运用,Barloventenos通过利用一种双重意识的形式,在制度化的种族主义结构中表现出决心。巴洛文托地区代表了委内瑞拉文化中中非传统在音乐、乐器、舞蹈风格和语言保留方面的强烈连续性,这些都是这一分析的主要基础。本研究评估了这些不同形式的非裔委内瑞拉文化,以及它们如何被用作抵抗隐形化和制度性种族主义的一种形式。调查结果基于2010年至2019年期间进行的历史研究和实地工作。恢复非洲和委内瑞拉在跨大西洋地区的共同利益,即由少数民族组成的少数民族后裔组成的少数民族,即被边缘化、歧视和排斥的少数民族。Este estustudio探索了传统媒体的使用,并将其与传统文化结合在一起,从而实现了对社会压迫的抵抗。在Barlovento地区的传统文化的管理,在Barlovento地区的传统文化管理,在Barlovento地区的传统文化管理,在Barlovento地区的传统文化管理,在Barlovento地区的传统文化管理,在Barlovento地区的传统文化管理,在Barlovento地区的传统文化管理,在Barlovento地区的传统文化管理。一个旅行的应用,记忆,精神,文化,最重要的是,社会主义,种族主义,制度化,调解,利用形式的双重便利。Barlovento地区代表了非洲传统文化的持续发展、中美洲文化的发展、音乐、乐器的发展、语言的保留、文化的发展、文化的发展和文化分析的基础。本调查评估了种族主义制度下不同形式的文化抵抗和种族主义制度的隐形化。Los hallazgos se basan en la investigation history by el trabajo de campo realizado entre 2010 - 2019。
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This article examines contemporary cultural production by New York-based, self-identified Indo-Caribbean artists in order to understand how Indo-Caribbean identity is formulated in the double diaspora, removed from the contexts of both India and the Caribbean. Specifically, I analyze Miranda Deebrah’s oral performance piece Sounds from Home and Lissa Deonarain’s short documentary film Double Diaspora: A Portrait of Indo-Caribbeans in New York using Aisha Khan’s framework of “diasporic consciousness.” I argue that in these pieces, Indo-Caribbean identity is constructed not around ethnicity, culture, or Indian traditions, but as a process that recognizes the interlinking of multiple traumatic displacements and migrations in the history of descendants of South Asian indentured laborers. Deebrah and Deonarain narrate journeys toward understanding and embracing identity that follow a trajectory from alienation and psychic disavowal caused by the dislocation of migration to the United States, where Indo-Caribbeanness is largely invisible in racial discourses, to self-imposed exile and distancing from the community. This prompts a return to histories of indentured migration and ultimately a reconfiguration of Indo-Caribbean identity around notions of intergenerational trauma and multiple displacements. I argue that this conceptualization of Indo-Caribbean identity as a diasporic consciousness allows a generation of Indo-Caribbean artists and activists to flexibly navigate racial discourses in the US, because it refuses to reproduce reified categories of race and ethnicity often demanded by a nationalist politics of recognition. Resumen Este articulo examina la produccion cultural contemporanea de artistas indocaribenos basados en Nueva York con el fin de entender como la identidad indocaribena se formula en la doble diaspora, alejada de los contextos tanto de la India como del Caribe. Especificamente, analizo la pieza de performance oral de Miranda Deebrah, “Sounds from Home,” y el cortometraje documental de Lissa Deonarain, Double Diaspora: A Portrait of Indo-Caribbeans in New York, usando el marco de Aisha Khan de “conciencia diasporica”. Sostengo que en estas piezas, la identidad indocaribena no se construye en torno a la etnia, la cultura o las tradiciones indias, sino como un proceso que reconoce la interrelacion de multiples desplazamientos traumaticos y migraciones en la historia de los descendientes de los trabajadores no abonados del sur asiatico. Deebrah y Deonarain narran viajes hacia la comprension y la aceptacion de la identidad que siguen una trayectoria desde la alienacion y la negacion psiquica causada por la dislocacion de la migracion a los Estados Unidos, donde el indocaribenismo es en gran medida invisible en los discursos raciales, al exilio autoimpuesto y al distanciamiento de la comunidad, lo que provoca un regreso a las historias de la migracion de mano de obra no abonada y, en ultima instancia, una reconfiguracion de la identida
本文检视纽约自认为是印度-加勒比艺术家的当代文化创作,以了解印度-加勒比身份是如何在双重散居中形成的,脱离了印度和加勒比的背景。具体来说,我用艾莎·汗的“流散意识”框架来分析米兰达·迪布拉的口头表演作品《来自家乡的声音》和丽莎·迪奥纳兰的纪录片短片《双重散居:纽约印裔加勒比人的肖像》。我认为,在这些作品中,印度-加勒比身份不是围绕种族、文化或印度传统构建的,而是作为一个认识到南亚契约劳工后代历史上多次创伤性流离失所和迁移的相互联系的过程。Deebrah和Deonarain讲述了理解和拥抱身份的旅程,从移民到美国的混乱造成的异化和精神上的否认,在那里,印度-加勒比人在种族话语中基本上是看不见的,到自我放逐和远离社区。这促使人们回到契约移民的历史,并最终围绕代际创伤和多次流离失所的概念重新配置印度-加勒比人的身份。我认为,这种将印度-加勒比身份概念化为一种流散意识,使一代印度-加勒比艺术家和活动家能够灵活地驾驭美国的种族话语,因为它拒绝再现民族主义政治所要求的种族和民族的物化类别。Resumen埃斯特危象examina文化contemporanea de la produccion artistas indocaribenos basados en Nueva纽约con el鳍de la identidad entender科莫indocaribena se公式en la快侨民,alejada de los contextos太多de la印度科莫del水虎鱼。特别地,对米兰达·迪布拉的表演作品《来自家乡的声音》、《丽莎·迪奥纳兰的纪录片《双重散居:印度-加勒比人在纽约的肖像》、《艾莎·马克·德·汗的《散居》进行分析。Sostengo en是嘴吸口,la identidad indocaribena没有se construye en torno la etnia洛杉矶文化las tradiciones印度阿嘉汉科摩联合国proceso, reconoce la interrelacion de倍数desplazamientos traumaticos y de los migraciones en la史学家descendientes de los trabajadores没有abonados del苏尔asiatico。Deebrah y Deonarain narran viajes hacia la la aceptacion comprension y de la identidad, siguen una trayectoria desde la alienacion y la negacion psiquica由la dislocacion de la migracion洛杉矶美国,在el indocaribenismo es en格兰medida无形在洛杉矶discursos种族,艾尔exilio autoimpuesto y al distanciamiento de la comunidad lo, provoca联合国regreso las史学家de la migracion de马诺de obra为没有abonada y,天涯instancia,一种由多重创伤引起的代际创伤的重新配置。从概念上讲,这是一种认同,这是一种文化,这是一种文化,这是一种文化,这是一种文化,这是一种文化,这是一种文化,这是一种文化,这是一种文化,这是一种文化,这是一种文化,这是一种文化,这是一种文化,这是一种文化。
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Michelle Mohabeer’s groundbreaking Indo-Caribbean queer film, Coconut/Cane & Cutlass (1994) remains one of the earliest works of queer Indo-Caribbean visual art. Mohabeer scripts the lesbian body cinematically through an iconography of indenture: coconut, cane, cutlass. This article returns to Coconut/Cane & Cutlass nearly three decades after its release to examine the radical ways in which Mohabeer’s visual aesthetics posits the canescape as a site of Indo-Caribbean lesbian subjectivity, reconfigures the cutlass from its status of violence to one of desire, and examines the poetics of fragmentation as a queer feminist genealogical approach. In our reading of Coconut/Cane & Cutlass as a visual text of rewriting diasporic subjectivity, Mohabeer produces a radical visual genealogy that narrates diasporic Indo-Caribbean identity through a primary site of queerness, upending historical approaches to gender and sexuality within traditional configurations of the indentured diasporas. La innovadora pelicula indocaribena queer de Michelle Mohabeer, Coconut/Cane & Cutlass (1994), sigue siendo una de las primeras obras de arte visual indocaribeno queer. Mohabeer escribe el cuerpo lesbico cinematicamente a traves de una iconografia de la mano de obra importada no abonada: coco, cana, alfanje. Este articulo regresa a Coconut/Cane & Cutlass casi tres decadas despues de su estreno para examinar las formas radicales en que la estetica visual de Mohabeer plantea el lugar del canaveral como un sitio de subjetividad lesbiana indocaribena, reconfigura el alfanje desde su connotacion de violencia a otra de deseo y examina la poetica de la fragmentacion como un enfoque genealogico feminista queer. En nuestra lectura de Coconut/Cane & Cutlass como un texto visual de la reescritura de la subjetividad diasporica, Mohabeer produce una genealogia visual radical que narra la identidad indocaribena diasporica a traves de un sitio primario de lo queer, trastornando los enfoques historicos al genero y a la sexualidad dentro de las configuraciones tradicionales de las diasporas de la mano de obra importada no abonada.
米歇尔·莫哈比尔开创性的印度-加勒比酷儿电影《椰子/甘蔗和弯刀》(1994年)仍然是印度-加勒比酷儿视觉艺术的最早作品之一。莫哈比尔将女同性恋的身体以电影的方式通过契约的图像来描述:椰子、手杖、弯刀。这篇文章在《椰子/甘蔗与弯刀》出版近三十年后,重新审视莫哈比尔的视觉美学以激进的方式将canescape作为印度-加勒比女同性恋主体性的场所,将弯刀从暴力的状态重新配置为欲望的状态,并将破碎的诗学作为酷儿女权主义的谱系方法进行研究。在我们阅读《椰子/甘蔗&短刀》时,将其视为一种重新书写流散者主体性的视觉文本,莫哈比尔创作了一种激进的视觉谱系,通过酷儿的主要场所来叙述流散者的印度-加勒比身份,颠覆了传统契约流散者配置中性别和性行为的历史方法。Michelle Mohabeer的《Coconut/Cane & Cutlass》(1994年),这是一款独特的电影,它是一款视觉上的indocaribeno queer。莫哈比尔描述了他的电影创作历程,以及他的电影创作历程:coco, canana, alfanje。埃斯特危象regresa椰子/甘蔗和弯刀属于接近非常decadas在苏estreno对位examinar las简称formas激进en公式Mohabeer estetica视觉plantea el卢格del卡纳维拉尔科莫联合国sitio de subjetividad lesbiana indocaribena, reconfigura el alfanje desde苏connotacion de violencia一部分de deseo y examina洛杉矶当时de la fragmentacion科莫联合国enfoque genealogico feminista酷儿。在《椰子/甘蔗与刀》中,Mohabeer创作了一种视觉上的激进主义,一种视觉上的激进主义,一种主观主义的批判主义,一种主观主义的批判主义,一种文化上的批判主义,一种历史上的批判主义,一种性别上的批判主义,一种传统上的批判主义,一种传统的批判主义,一种主观主义的批判主义,一种主观主义的批判主义。
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This study considers how reality, fiction, and melodrama intersect so that Teresa Mendoza, protagonist of Arturo Perez-Reverte’s novel, La Reina del Sur, escapes into everyday reality and is imagined into existence. The novel and first iteration of the telenovela based on it have become cultural touchstones that employ melodramatic elements that allow audiences to come to terms with an increasingly complex cultural terrain by situating social, political and familial ideas in easily identifiable and comprehendible dramas. The examples discussed here, which include the novel, telenovela, and news accounts about the relationship between Mexican actress Kate del Castillo, who plays Teresa in the telenovela, and drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, illustrate how melodramatic narratives create the circumstances to question the boundaries between reality and fiction, redefine traditional standards of melodrama, challenge normative femininity, and initiate spaces in which transnational communities can understand and interpret social disruption. // Este estudio examina la manera en que la realidad, la ficcion y el melodrama se entrecruzan de modo que Teresa Mendoza, protagonista de la novela de Arturo Perez-Reverte, La Reina del Sur, logre escaparse hacia la realidad cotidiana y cobrar existencia mediante la imaginacion del publico. La novela y la primera serie de la telenovela basada en ella se han convertido en piedras de toque culturales que emplean elementos del genero del melodrama que permiten que el publico aprenda a navegar un terreno cultural cada vez mas complejo al situar sus ideas sociales, politicas y de familia dentro de dramas facilmente reconocibles y comprensibles. Se ofrecen ejemplos de la novela, la telenovela y reportajes sobre la relacion entre la actriz mexicana Kate del Castillo, Teresa Mendoza en la telenovela, y el capo narcotraficante Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, que ilustran las maneras en que las narrativas melodramaticas crean las circunstancias apropiadas para provocar el cuestionamiento de las fronteras entre la realidad y la ficcion, pedir redefiniciones de las normas tradicionales del melodrama, presentar retos a la feminidad normativa e iniciar espacios en los que las comunidades trasnacionales puedan comprender e interpretar las disrupciones sociales.
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{"title":"Review of: Daniel Nemser. Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017.","authors":"Lance C. Thurner","doi":"10.23870/MARLAS.241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23870/MARLAS.241","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Daniel Nemser. Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017.","PeriodicalId":36126,"journal":{"name":"Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48727931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jessica Stites Mor and Maria del Carmen Suescun Pozas, The Art of Solidarity: Visual and Performative Politics in Cold War Latin America (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018). vi, 310.","authors":"D. Sheinin","doi":"10.23870/MARLAS.237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23870/MARLAS.237","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36126,"journal":{"name":"Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44816674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Espacio Creacion/Creation Space: Abelardo Baldizon (Nicaragua)","authors":"Abelardo Baldizón","doi":"10.23870/MARLAS.242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23870/MARLAS.242","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36126,"journal":{"name":"Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46986042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Karly Gaitan Morales, A LA CONQUISTA DE UN SUENO","authors":"R. Perez","doi":"10.23870/MARLAS.243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23870/MARLAS.243","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36126,"journal":{"name":"Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42056457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}