Bridging latino diaspora through consciousness: Examining The Cultural Canon in José Rivera’s Marisol | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Linguistics and Translation | ||||
| Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2021, Page 30-44 PDF (276.54 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Research in linguistic and literary studies | ||||
| DOI: 02.34,Jaunury2021.EJLT | ||||
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| Abstract | ||||
| For over a decade, the general contemporary American literary milieu has become a cultural one, the surge is diversity, and the agenda is to set a new canon with a recognized mosaic. Diversity and multi culturalism should cater as a recognized “canon” for both modern American dramatic politics and modern cultural politics alike. Exposition and portrayal of minorities, racial/cultural issues and diasporas, that were for decades the forbidden territory, have now become the norm-if not the parade- of modern American theater. With due regard to America’s centuries – old assumption of being the cultural “crucible”; the melting pot where multiculturalism crescendos into a monoculture, today, with an overflow of diverse minorities, the melting pot falls too short to maintain it. Consequently, American literary canon started to suffer a state of moral discrepancy. It This paper discusses and examines the existing cultural canon in modern America as well as its representation on stage. The shift of the canon from the stereotypical “white male” into other colors and genders alike becomes –thus- a matter of appropriateness. The dilemma of most writers was mainly how to uplift this new “canon” from the womb of a “minority” into the crux of a universal, multicultural humanism; to “dehistoricize culture, race, and gender”(Joseph Lee, p. 621). The paper also hypothizes that Latinos’- and others’- strong feel of diaspora and cultural uprootedness stems mainly from their lack of consciousness and insight. The paper sets its basic discussion unto three main clusters or domains of bridging a condition as well as a sense of diaspora. badly needed an apocalypse. (uhpok-uh-lips) | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| multiculturalism; marginalized minorities; occult; apocalypse | ||||
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