· 2014
Cultural identity and diaspora
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Short summary
A new Caribbean cinema is emerging, distinct from but related to existing Afro-Caribbean and Asian diasporic visual representations.
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Key points
- Emergence of a new Caribbean cinema.
- Distinction and relation to existing Afro-Caribbean/Asian diasporic visual arts.
- Cultural identity is a fluid concept, evolving through 'becoming' as well as 'being'.
- Historical and temporal dimensions shape cultural identities.
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Abstract
A new cinema of the Caribbean is emerging, joining the company of the other 'Third Cinemas'. It is related to, but different from the vibrant film and other forms of visual representation of the Afro-Caribbean (and Asian) 'blacks' of the diasporas of the West – the new post-colonial subjects. There are at least two different ways of thinking about 'cultural identity'. The first position defines 'cultural identity' in terms of one, shared culture, a sort of collective 'one true self, hiding inside the many other, more superficial or artificially imposed 'selves', which people with a shared history and ancestry hold in common. Cultural identity is a matter of 'becoming' as well as of 'being'. It belongs to the future as much as to the past. It is not something which already exists, transcending place, time, history and culture. Cultural identities come from somewhere, have histories. But, like everything which is historical, they undergo constant transformation.
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Field: Cultural Studies
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