Subjugated cultures subvert dominant codes by rearticulating and creolizing their signs

Evidence

Across a whole range of cultural forms there is a powerful syncretic dynamic which critically appropriates elements from the master-codes of the dominant cultures and creolizes them, disarticulating given signs and re-articulating their symbolic meaning otherwise. The subversive force of this hybridizing tendency is most apparent at the level of language itself (including visual language) where Creoles, patois and Black English decentre, destabilize and carnivalize the linguistic domination of “English”—the nation-language of master-discourse—through strategic inflections, reaccentuations and other performative moves in semantic, syntactic and lexical codes. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 838

Categorization

• XREF: The mechanism of disarticulation/rearticulation is exactly what the Islamophobia readings use to show how colonized Muslim societies creolize or resist orientalist codes. — connects to: Entire communities can collectively subvert a dominant language from within — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 549