caa a22 4500 388109300 CHVBK 20180307125348.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0307883300019167 doi S0307883300019167 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0307883300019167 Arrizón Alicia Transculturation and Gender in US Latina Performance [Elektronische Daten] [Alicia Arrizón] Transculturation refers to an intercultural body associated with hybrid encounters and with a system that resists and contests the powers of domination. The term transculturation was coined by the anthropologist Fernando Ortiz in 1940. He formulated this neologism as a way to counteract and subvert the homogenizing grammars implicit in the term ‘acculturation', which Anglo anthropologists had coined in the late 1930s. Mary Louise Pratt suggested that as a function of the ‘contact zone', transculturation dramatizes dialectical bodies ready to be reconstrued, re-embodied, and re-visioned. Specifically, Pratt refers to the ‘contact zone' as the space of colonial encounters. While the contact zone can be materialized at any point in time and space, interculturalism in the study of Latina performance not only shapes the heterogeneous character of the term Latin American and its hybrid variants, but also influences diverse modes of representation. Within the specificity of US Latina performance, I propose to expand the idea of transculturation as it opens possibilities for understanding the intercultural body—the hybrid that can redefine notions of mestizaje itself. In this study, the concepts of transculturation and performance suggest a framework in which cultural norms and practices must be rooted in the materiality of human agency. Therefore, before discussing transculturation and performance, it is necessary to clarify the term Latina as an identity marker, which displaces hegemonic representation across linguistic and cultural borders. Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1999 Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 24/3(1999), 288-292 0307-8833 24:3<288 1999 24 TRI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300019167 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300019167 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Arrizón Alicia NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 24/3(1999), 288-292 0307-8833 24:3<288 1999 24 TRI CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge