Cosmopolitan or mongrel

Créolité, hybridity and 'douglarisation'in Trinidad

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5778484
AutoresEve Walsh Stoddard (St. Lawrence University), Eve stoddard (St Lawrence University, New York), Grant H Cornwell (St Lawrence University, New York)
Año1999
Volumen2
Número3
Páginas331-353
Fecha de publicación1999-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1367-5494 • E-ISSN: 1460-3551
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/136754949900200303
OpenAlexW2078666427
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas11

The article examines a Trimdadian calypso and its reception as a case study to weigh the discourses of hybridity, creolisation, and a local variant, 'douglarisation'. In cultural studies discourse, 'creolisation' is often used synonymously with hybridization. However, it is a different metaphor, with a different genealogy, and is much more grounded in specific histories and places, namely the New World sites of plantation slavery. In Trinidad, the pejorative term 'dougla' sigmfies the offspring of a union between persons of African and Indian ancestry, while 'douglarisation' denotes the contested processes of Afro- and Indo-Trinidadian interculturation. 'Douglarisation' can be read as a particular instance of both hybridity and creolisation, but with very different implications. We argue that hybridity and creolisation advance different political agendas, the former attentive to multiple roots and the latter to new connections

Hybridity · Pejorative · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy