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Cross-Body Lead, Counterbody Motion. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, April 2009, Pages: 112
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.
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