caribbean projects
in the College of Humanities,
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
00931
Research and Documentation of Performance and Literature
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Investigación y Documentación de Performance y Literatura
College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras
PO Box 23356, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-3356
Phone (787)764-0000 exts. 7569, 3797, 3800 (FAX)
e-mail: lowell@coqui.net or lfiet@upracd.upr.clu.edu
Rockefeller Foundation-supported research in the Humanities
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Research and Documentation of Performance and Literature
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Investigación y Documentación de Performance y Literatura
28-30 de marzo de 1999
cuarto simposio anual de Caribe 2000
¿(con)Fusión cultural?:
Performance y performeros transcaribeños
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Cultural (con)Fusion?:
TransCaribbean Performance and Performers
Caribbean 2000's fourth annual symposium
March 28-30, 1999
(in conjunction with
the 18th Annual Conference on West Indian Literature
"Caribbean Diaspora(s)"
March 28-31, 1999)
College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico
PO Box 23356, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-3356
Phone (787)764-0000 exts. 7569, 3797, 3800 (FAX)
e-mail: lowell@coqui.net or lfiet@upracd.upr.clu.edu
publications of Caribbean 2000:
a journal of Caribbean literature, performance, and culture
An independent journal edited at the University of Puerto Rico,
SARGASSO publishes critical essays, interviews, book reviews, and
some poems and short stories. SARGASSO particularly welcomes
material written by the people of the Caribbean and/or about the
Caribbean. Future issues will increasingly reflect the editors'
interests in Caribbean theater, film, performance, and poetry and
cultural analysis.
Sargasso strives to make current studies in art, literature, and
culture accessible to non-specialists. The prose should be clear,
lively, and understandable to those not among the initiate. Essays
and critical studies should conform to the style of the MLA Handbook.
Short stories should be no more than 2,500 words in length, and
poems should be kept to no more than twenty to thirty lines. All
correspondence must include S.A.S.E.
Mailing Address:
Sargasso
P.O. Box 22831
University of Puerto Rico Station
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-2831
Editorial Committee:
Lowell Fiet and
María Cristina Rodríguez, editors
Salinda Lewis, editorial assistant
Reinhard Sander, book reviews
Peter Roberts
María Soledad Rodríguez
Caribbean 2000 Books
Lowell Fiet y Janette Becerra, editores.
Primer Simposio de Caribe 2000:
re-Definiciones:
Espacio --global/nacional/cultural/personal-- caribeño.
1997; 165 páginas; trabajos en inglés y español por
Antonio Benítez Rojo
Angel Quintero
Lowell Fiet
Ramón Grosfoguel
Jaqueline Jiménez Polanco
Peter Roberts
Mayra Santos Febres
y más
Segundo Simposio de Caribe 2000:
Hablar, Nombrar, Pertenecer:
el juego entre el Idioma y la identidad . . .
1998; 196 páginas; trabajos en inglés y español por
Javier Cardona (creación)
Teresa Hernández (creación)
Michael Aceto
Mervyn Alleyne
María Elena Alonso
Brenda F. Berrian
Catherine Den Tandt
Ian Hancock
Vivian Martínez Tabares
Carlos Pabón
Iris Yolanda Reyes
Peter Roberts
Ellem Schnepel
Tercer Simposio de Caribe 2000:
Un convite de poetas y teatreros:
voz y performance en la(s) cultura(s) caribeña(s).
Disponible en marzo de 1999.
Recent projects:
Without music no words,
without movement no meaning
o
. . . qué no me quiten lo bailao'
Rockefeller Residency Research Fellowships in the Humanities
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 1997-98
Performance and Text in Caribbean Literature and Art
National Endowment for the Humanities
1997 Summer Institute for College and University Faculty
Performance and Text in Caribbean Literature and Art
National Endowment for the Humanities
1997 Summer Institute for College and University Faculty
June 9 to July 21, 1997
College of Humanities
University of Puerto Rico
Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
The NEH 1997 Summer Institute for College and University Faculty
Performance and Text in Caribbean Literature and Art on the main (Río
Piedras) campus of the University of Puerto Rico offers 25 two- and
four-year college and university faculty the opportunity to explore the
interrelation of what anthropologists and students of popular culture
identify as "texts" and "performances" and the usually more privileged
forms of literary and artistic creation in the context of the Caribbean
itself. The Institute emphasizes the intense discussion of shared
intellectual, cultural, and artistic experiences. The collaborative
design of the activities and projects reflects the principal purposes of
broadening educational perspectives and enriching college and
university teaching.
The advantages for such study in Puerto Rico include not only a dense
cultural matrix from which to draw examples, but also the fact that the
University of Puerto Rico provides a resident faculty of Caribbeanists
who, working in conjunction with the participants and the culturally
and linguistically diverse group of invited Institute scholars, lend
additional depth and continuity for participants.
Caribbean culture has been inscribed in the European discourse of
difference and otherness from 1492 onwards --what is, perhaps, best
recorded in Shakespeare's The Tempest as the difference between the
world of "nature" Caliban inherits and the "culture" Prospero imposes
on it. The principal issues to be explored during the 1997 Summer
Institute focus on the reexamination of the supposed polarities of
popular/ formal, oral/scribal, anthropological/artistic, Creole/standard,
and nature/culture. The results of this shared exploration should
suggest their non-hierarchical reconfiguration as a cultural continuum
not unlike the idea of a linguistic continuum proposed to describe
variations of language use in many Caribbean societies.
The academic process negotiates a movement between the general or
theoretical (especially post-colonial and post-modern theory), the local
or specific (popular culture, music, folk customs, and festival arts as
well as formal and/or scribal expression), and (by way of literary
forms and themes which reflect shared issues of gender, race, nation,
and empire) the regional or transcultural. The six weekly sessions
immerse 25 participants from diverse fields such as English, Spanish,
and French literatures and languages, general Humanities, art, theater,
and performance studies, anthropology, and other cultural fields in the
study and environment of Caribbean texts and performances. Travel,
housing and food costs are subsidized, and participants receive a
stipend.
Director:
Lowell Fiet, University of Puerto Rico
UPR Faculty:
Rosa Luisa Márquez, University of Puerto Rico
Nalini Natarajan, University of Puerto Rico
María Cristina Rodríguez, University of Puerto Rico
Mayra Santos, University of Puerto Rico
Reinhard Sander, University of Puerto Rico
Visiting Faculty:
Efraín Barradas, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Antonio Benítez Rojo, Amherst College
Judith Bettelheim, San Francisco State University
Herbert Blau, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Mervyn Morris, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Peter A. Roberts, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill,
Barbados
Olive Senior, Writer and Adjunct Professor, St. Lawrence
University
Marie-Denise Shelton, Claremont McKenna College
Information:
Lowell Fiet
Box 22831
University of Puerto Rico Station
San Juan, PR 00931-2831
Phone: (787) 764-0000 (exts. 7569, 3797)
FAX: (787) 764-0000 (ext. 3800)
Email: lfiet@upracd.upr.clu.edu or lowell@coqui.net
Without music no words, without movement no meaning
o
. . . qué no me quiten lo bailao'
Caribbean 2000: Regional and/or National
Definitions, Identities and Cultures
1997-98 Rockefeller Research Fellowships in the Humanities
College of Humanities
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
In 1997-98, the third and final year of the Caribbean 2000 project
explores literary, artistic, and popular culture representations that
reflect the interaction between increased multiculturalism and the only
partially realized desire for national identity inside Caribbean
societies. By focusing on the role played by creative expression, the
issues of geopolitical definition and historical identity that
predominated in the project's first two years merge with critical and
esthetic concerns that begin to map out the uniquely syncretic and
emblematic nature of Caribbean culture.
Caribbean 2000 intends to stimulate debate on issues of race, gender,
nation and empire as viewed in island and metropolitan Caribbean
populations and cultures. It envisions the integration of visiting
scholars and artists with the ongoing re-examination of cultural
practices in the context of the tension created by changing regional and
national definitions and identities in the contemporary Caribbean.
Puerto Rico's historical insertion in this process is the project's point
of departure.
Senior and junior scholars and artists currently involved in
Caribbean-related projects are eligible. Fellows will have access to
specialized research collections of the University of Puerto Rico and
performance and workshop facilities. They will also be asked to share
their work at periodical seminar sessions and at university-sponsored
conferences. Publication of written materials by university-supported
journals or by the University of Puerto Rico Press will be encouraged.
Application deadline: February 15, 1997.
Contact: Professor Lowell Fiet
Director, Caribbean 2000 Program
College of Humanities
P.O. Box 23356, UPR Station
San Juan, PR 00931-3356
(787) 764-0000 exts. 7569, 3800 or 2553, fax (787) 763-5899.
Email: lowell@coqui.net or lfiet@upracd.upr.clu.edu