Cross-Body Lead, Counterbody Motion

Transculturation represents the potential of a third
space in which to refigure the terms of
identification beyond majoritarian framings obliging
assimilation, reproduction and homogenization within
a dominant order of authenticity and legitimacy,
especially where the counterpolitical has failed in
its negation to move beyond reiterating conventional
binaries. This semi-fictional auto-ethnography
engages the reader from the crossroads between
majoritarian and minoritarian relations of cultural
production in the process of remaking cultural
power. Here, the salsa dance floor is taken up as a
site of border-crossings rife with uprisings between
flirtation and affixation, pillage and restitution,
alienation and recentering in an attempt to examine
the limits of popular culture and transculturation,
and in problematizing dominant reterritorialization
of the margins in contemporary cosmopolitan urban
life. Within gaps, pauses and off-time lapses,
counterpuntal voices of an emergent Latino-Canadian
cultural studies sound off in counterbody motion.

Autorentext

Christine D. Connelly is Assistant Professor in Francophone Minorities and Education at the Centre de recherches en éducation franco-ontarienne (CREFO) and the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto.

Klappentext

Transculturation represents the potential of a third space in which to refigure the terms of identification beyond majoritarian framings obliging assimilation, reproduction and homogenization within a dominant order of authenticity and legitimacy, especially where the counterpolitical has failed in its negation to move beyond reiterating conventional binaries. This semi-fictional auto-ethnography engages the reader from the crossroads between majoritarian and minoritarian relations of cultural production in the process of remaking cultural power. Here, the salsa dance floor is taken up as a site of border-crossings rife with uprisings between flirtation and affixation, pillage and restitution, alienation and recentering in an attempt to examine the limits of popular culture and transculturation, and in problematizing dominant reterritorialization of the margins in contemporary cosmopolitan urban life. Within gaps, pauses and off-time lapses, counterpuntal voices of an emergent Latino-Canadian cultural studies sound off in counterbody motion.