Situaciones de transculturación a través de expresiones artísticas en concierto barroco de Alejo Carpentier

Abstract

Direct and continuous contact between different cultural groups generates a complex dialogue in which the adoption and integration of elements belonging to the foreign culture are conditioned by the cultural  patterns of the group. These cultural patterns give their own meaning to the adopted traits through this  modification process: no element from the source cultural system is reproduced in the same manner once it  is admitted into the receiving culture. These problems arising from cultural contact and exchange are dealt  with, through the  iterary discourse, in Concierto Barroco. Carpentier displays two opposing views: the  American view of Europe and the European view of America, developed by each continent by means of  different artistic expressions (literary, musical, pictorial). We will analyze within the America/Europe tension,  the configuration of an identity, a tradition and a new syncretic cultural expression. It is essential to add to  this dichotomy, others that are also relevant: nature/culture, cultured/popular, tradition/innovation. To  contribute to the analysis of these matters it is very useful to incorporate anthropological categories such as  transculturation, appropriation, reinterpretation, assimilation–to those of the literary criticism field – especially the concept of carnivalization (Bakhtin). The manner in which Carpentier represents a situation of  transculturation as a reciprocal projection phenomenon will be shown.

Keywords:

transculturación

América/Europa

sincretismo

patrones culturales

identidad

transculturation

America/Europe

syncretism

cultural patterns

identity

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