{"id":589,"date":"2016-02-08T15:33:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T22:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a1lieblang\/?p=589"},"modified":"2016-02-08T15:33:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T22:33:28","slug":"our-complicity-in-manufacturing-cultural-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a1lieblang\/2016\/02\/08\/our-complicity-in-manufacturing-cultural-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Complicity in Manufacturing Cultural Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The seminar discussion regarding hypertext poetry and McLuhan\u2019s<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>famous quote \u201cThe Medium is the Message\u201d links back to Dabydeen\u2019s <i>Slave Song:<\/i> although the medium of poetry and printed text is a familiar one, his criticisms of colonialism lead one to question his choice of medium. The form of <i>Slave Song<\/i> can be seen to be just as thematically significant as that of Strickland\u2019s \u201cThe Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot\u201d. The combination of Creole poetry and critical apparatus create a hypertext of sorts \u2014 Dabydeen provides the option to work through his text in any way the reader desires. By allowing readers the freedom to consume the text in any desired manner, each reader of <i>Slave Song<\/i> unknowingly becomes complicit in the discussed issue of colonialism. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Based on the order one chooses to read the various components of Slave Song \u2014 the Creole poems, the notes, the translations \u2014 the reader\u2019s image of Guyanese culture will vary. With the agency to decide how to consume such a work, the reader is complicit in manufacturing that which they wish to see. The criticism of an overly simplistic search for an cultural authenticity is thus exemplified by the very form through which Dabydeen delivers <i>Slave Song<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The seminar discussion regarding hypertext poetry and McLuhan\u2019s\u00a0 famous quote \u201cThe Medium is the Message\u201d links back to Dabydeen\u2019s Slave Song: although the medium of poetry and printed text is a familiar one, his criticisms of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a1lieblang\/2016\/02\/08\/our-complicity-in-manufacturing-cultural-identity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a1lieblang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a1lieblang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a1lieblang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a1lieblang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a1lieblang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a1lieblang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a1lieblang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a1lieblang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a1lieblang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a1lieblang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}