{"id":12465,"date":"2011-03-05T22:35:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T22:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12465"},"modified":"2013-02-26T02:16:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T02:16:43","slug":"cosmopolitan-or-mongrel-creolite-hybridity-and-douglarisation-in-trinidad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12465","title":{"rendered":"Cosmopolitan or mongrel? Cr\u00e9olit\u00e9, hybridity and &#8216;douglarisation&#8217; in Trinidad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/136754949900200303\" target=\"_blank\">Cosmopolitan or mongrel? Cr\u00e9olit\u00e9, hybridity and &#8216;douglarisation&#8217; in Trinidad<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecs.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">European Journal of Cultural Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ecs.sagepub.com\/content\/2\/3.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 2, Number 3<\/a> (September 1999)<br \/>\npages 331-353<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/136754949900200303\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/136754949900200303<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlawu.edu\/academics\/programs\/global-studies\/directory\/1092\" target=\"_blank\">Eve Stoddard<\/a><\/strong>, Dana Professor of Global Studies<br \/>\n<em>St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wooster.edu\/About-Wooster\/College-President\" target=\"_blank\">Grant H. Cornwell<\/a><\/strong>, President<br \/>\n<em>College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The article examines a Trinidadian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calypso_music\" target=\"_blank\">calypso<\/a> and its reception as a case study to weigh the discourses of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=686\" target=\"_blank\">hybridity<\/a>, creolisation, and a local variant, &#8216;douglarisation&#8217;. In cultural studies discourse, &#8216;creolisation&#8217; 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_World\" target=\"_blank\">New World<\/a> sites of plantation slavery. In <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trinidad\" target=\"_blank\">Trinidad<\/a>, the pejorative term &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dougla\" target=\"_blank\">dougla<\/a>&#8216; sigmfies the offspring of a union between persons of African and Indian ancestry, while &#8216;douglarisation&#8217; denotes the contested processes of Afro- and Indo-Trinidadian interculturation. &#8216;Douglarisation&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/ecs.sagepub.com\/content\/2\/3\/331.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmopolitan or mongrel? Cr\u00e9olit\u00e9, hybridity and &#8216;douglarisation&#8217; in Trinidad European Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 2, Number 3 (September 1999) pages 331-353 DOI: 10.1177\/136754949900200303 Eve Stoddard, Dana Professor of Global Studies St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York Grant H. Cornwell, President College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio The article examines a Trinidadian calypso and its reception [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,8],"tags":[987,5592,5594,5593,299],"class_list":["post-12465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","tag-european-journal-of-cultural-studies","tag-eve-stoddard","tag-grant-cornwell","tag-grant-h-cornwell","tag-trinidad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}