Rerouting functions as a norm of dislocated Caribbean art
Evidence
Rerouting [détou.rnement] is its only norm, or its fundamental nature. And plainsong here, ordinarily an occasion for transport or escape, holds us clearly in the world at its fuUest. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 261
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines détournement as the fundamental norm of what the chapter calls naturalized baroque.
- XREF: connects to: Caribbean culture forms through routed intermingling rather than rooted continuity — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 489; Permeable Creole boundaries make Caribbean identity fluid and unstable — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3202; Caribbean culture is synthetic and adaptive rather than authentic (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Caribbean culture forms through routed intermingling rather than rooted continuity
#expands(0.95) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 489 - Cultural analysis must trace routes of transformation rather than roots of continuity
#expands(0.95) - Caribbean identity is defined by creolization across difference
#expands(0.85) - Caribbean culture is synthetic and adaptive rather than authentic
#expands(0.80) - Creolization deconstructs dominant forms into vernacular local modes
#expands(0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 489 - Permeable Creole boundaries make Caribbean identity fluid and unstable
#expands(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3202 - Economic diversity across Caribbean states shaped local Creole cultural reproduction
#expands(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3221