The Reordering of Culture

by Ruprecht, Alvina; Taiana, Cecilia

• ISBN13: 9780886292690
• ISBN10: 0886292697
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-11-01
• Publisher: Carleton Univ Pr

Summary

Political, economic and social barriers among Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada are giving way to global forces and the "global dreams" they inspire. This collection of original articles and essays examines popular culture, literature, theatre, belief systems, indigenous practices and questions of identity, exile and alienation. The interconnectedness and distinction of cultural production throughout the Americas, "transplanted" interests, the mediation of African and European influences, and the expression of shifting identities, all reflect the development of a new American neighbourhood.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	1	(3)
Introduction
Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada: The New Cultural Neighbourhood	3	(14)
Alvina Ruprecht
I RENEGOTIATING BELIEF SYSTEMS
The Pope Must Have Been Drunk, The King of Castile a Madman: Culture as Actuality, and the Caribbean Rethinking Modernity	17	(26)
Sylvia Wynter
A Conflict of Theological Interpretations: Baroque Scholasticism versus Liberation Theology	43	(14)
Jean-Louis de Lannoy
Tell out King Rasta Doctrine Around the Whole World: Rastafari in Global Perspective	57	(18)
Carole D. Yawney
De la marginalisation a la deterritorialisation du Rastafari	75	(18)
Anny Dominique Curtius
II WRITERS BETWEEN WORLDS
Caribbean Canadian Writers: A Literary Forum Austin Clarke, Cecil Foster, Cyril Dabydeen, Dany Laferriere	93	(18)
Makeda Silvera
Notes on Latin American-Canadian Literature	111	(8)
Jorge Etcheverry
Latin American Writers in Canada: Integration and Distance, Writing at the Crossroads	119	(4)
Nain Nomez
Writing in Exile: Writing Nowhere for Nobody?	123	(4)
Jose Leandro Urbina
Message from the Crossroads	127	(4)
Alfonso Quijada Urias
The Writer in Exile	131	(4)
Pablo Urbanyi
Aqui estamos: An Overview of Latin American Writing in Quebec Today	135	(8)
Hugh Hazelton
Le Theatre de l'Alterite dans la Compagnie des arts Exilio	143	(14)
Alberto Kurapel
Le guanaco Gaucho
III CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY WRITERS
Redefining the Centre: Austin Clarke and Other West Indian Canadian Writers	157	(18)
Stella Algoo-Baksh
Narrative Quilting in Banana Bottom and Voyage in the Dark	175	(12)
Carolyn Allen
Nature and Imagination: The Bestiary of Dulce Maria Loynaz	187	(12)
Nara Araujo
Poetic Discourse in Babylon: The Poetry of Dionne Brand	199	(20)
Frederick Ivor Case
Maitre on Mentor: L'Ombre de Glissant dans Texaco de Patrick Chamoiseau	219	(10)
Marie-Jose N'Zengou-Tayo
Banished Between Two Worlds: Exiles in Chilean Canadian Literature	229	(6)
Sylvie Perron
Women's Word: From Resistance to Challenging the Patriarchal Culture	235	(16)
Lady Rojas-Trempe
``L'Amerique c'est moi'': Dany Laferriere and the Borderless Text	251	(20)
Alvina Ruprecht
IV INDIGENOUS CULTURES: CREATIVE ENCOUNTERS
Culture and Education in Post-colonial Development: A Southern Andean Study	271	(20)
Maria-Ines Arratia
Yekmaseualkopan: Y-a-t-il une maniere moderne d'etre nahua?	291	(20)
Pierre Beaucage
Art as a Formative Force in Latin America: The Reclamation of the Indigenous and Popular Past in the Art of Nicaragua	311	(8)
David Craven
Beyond Development and Modernity: Regenerating the Art of Living	319	(20)
Gustavo Esteva
V POPULAR CULTURE IN THE HOOD
Haitian Music in the Global System	339	(24)
Gage Averill
Caribbean Popular Music and Civil Society: The Calypso Arena as Voice of the People	363	(16)
Embert Charles
Come to Jamaica and Feel All Right: Tourism, Colonial Discourse and Cultural Resistance	379	(18)
Honor Ford-Smith
Constructing Caribbean Culture in Toronto: The Representation of Caribana	397	(12)
Annemarie Gallaugher
Cartooning and Development in the Caribbean	409	(8)
John A. Lent
Education and Popular Culture in the Caribbean: Youth Resistance in a Period of Economic Uncertainty	417	(20)
Pedro A. Noguera
Myth and Signification in Perry Hensell's The Harder They Come	437	(20)
Gladstone L. Yearwood
Argentine Commercial Cinema: Industry, Society and Aesthetics, 1983-1989	457	(22)
Alberto Ciria
VI RETHINKING IDENTITIES
Identity and Differences in the Caribbean Diaspora: Case study from Metropolitan Toronto	479	(20)
Daniel Yon
L'expression d'une identite a travers la poesie et les chansons au Nicaragua	499	(20)
Milagros Ortiz
Beautiful Lies: Legitimation of the National Identity in Two Series of Indianist Poems of the Dominican Republic, 1877-1882	519	(16)
Catharina Vallejo
VII HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
Histoire et Litterature: La representation de l'annee 1938 dans deux romans chiliens	535	(20)
Jose Del Pozo
La Guadeloupe dans l'idearium et les strategies du Decouvreur: nouvelles approaches	555	(12)
Alain Yacou
VIII TOWARD AN ELECTRONIC HOOD
Navigating the Text: An Exploration in Comparative Cross-Cultural Epistemology	567	(16)
Cecilia Taiana
Notes on Contributors	583