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Africa Signified
Africa, the signified which could not be represented directly in slavery, remained and remains the unspoken, unspeakable
presence in Caribbean culture. It is hiding behind every verbal inflection, every narrative twist of Caribbean cultural
life. It is the secret code with which every Western text was re-read. It is the ground-bass of every rhythm and bodily
movement. This was- i s the Africa that is alive and well in the diaspora. -p230
http://www.unipa.it/~michele.cometa/hall_cultural_identity.pdf
This definition of Africa signified is obviously also present in the everyday encoding of African/American language, bass,
rhythm, and bodily movement. That evidence of Africa can then manifest itself in the very real imaginative geography and
history.
We must not collude with the West which, precisely, normalises and appropriates Africa by freezing it into some timeless
zone of the primitive, unchanging past. Africa must at last be reckoned with by Caribbean people, but it cannot in any
simple sense by merely recovered-p231
http://www.unipa.it/~michele.cometa/hall_cultural_identity.pdf
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http://www.icrates.org/the-aesthetics-of-afro-futurism
Presence European
Presence Europeenne is almost as complex as the dialogue with Africa. In terms of popular cultural life, it is nowhere to
be found in its pure, pristine state. It is always-already fused, syncretised, with other cultural elements. It is alwaysalready creolised not lost beyond the Middle Passage, but ever-present: from the harmonics in our musics to the groundbass of Africa, traversing and intersecting our lives at every point. How can we stage this dialogue so that, finally, we can
place it, without terror or violence, rather than being forever placed by it? Can we ever recognise its irreversible
influence, whilst resisting its imperializing eye? The engima is impossible, so far, to resolve. It requires the most complex
of cultural strategies. p234
http://www.unipa.it/~michele.cometa/hall_cultural_identity.pdf
Gauguin is an example of the Presence Europeenne, so loved for his exotic depictions of Tahiti of which Tahiti benefits
from in Tourism. The cultural identity of the Caribbean as a Romantic post-card has been offered as a true depiction of the
culture that is actually present. Gauguins success is derived from the hyper-color, the abstract sensual nude figure, the
simulacra of Tahiti. How much of this savage narrative of the Caribbean has been accepted as the rubric for the now
Caribbean folk art identity? This connection to the rubric of Europe is the reason for the stagnation in Caribbean art as
well African-American art.
Paul Gauguin, Te aa no areois (The Seed of the Areoi),1892, The Museum of Modern
Art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gauguin
http://www.artistsnetwork.com/the-artists-magazine/international-folk-art-market-santa-fe
Halls essay imagines concretely the Jamaican motto Out of Many, One People to be the new rubric of the New Africa,
unity of difference, where difference is ideal.