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T1 Chewing English and spitting Spanish : Josefina Báez Homing Dominican New York
A1 Durán-Almarza, Emilia María
K1 Dominican-Americans
K1 Transculturation
K1 Performance
K1 Diaspora
K1 Gender
K1 Ethnicities
K1 Race
K1 Identity formation
K1 Body
K1 Latino/a communities
K1 Domínico-americanas/os
K1 Transculturación
K1 Performance
K1 Género
K1 Etnicidades
K1 Raza
K1 Identidad
K1 Cuerpo
K1 Comunidades latinas en los Estados Unidos
AB For more than ten years, Josefina Báez, born in the Dominican province of La Romana in 1960, has been exploring on stage the complexity of Dominican experiences in the United States. In Dominicanish, first performed in 1999 and published as a performance text in 2000, Báez’s persona embodies the struggles of migrant communities seeking to come to terms with their dislocated sense of identity. Through a rich combination of multiple textual and visual art forms, playfully intermingling elementsfrom different cultural systems, Báez is able to create an inspiring piece of work that fartranscends traditional approaches to the formation of ethnic communities and identities in glocalized environments. Drawing theories on post-colonial and diaspora studies, 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 textualand corporeal elements in Dominicanish put forward a nuanced understanding of the contingent nature of spatial identities and its ever-changing nature. In the process, notions of home and belonging, linguistic and cultural exclusivism, and racial, gender and ethnic rigid articulations are challenged, exposed and reframed. Báez’s performance practice thus becomes a powerful tool to combat ssimiliationist praxis in global localities.
PB Universidad de Alcalá. Servicio de Publicaciones
YR 2011
FD 2011
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/11106
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/11106
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 25-abr-2024