- Griot Areítos (Extract 2)
- A Visceral narrative told by a griot-of-sorts, who details the yearly harvest of some neighbourhood fruit and their annual collaborative language formation, with embedded acts of both verbal and physical resistance, taken from examples throughout history. Explores the role of the parent/home for those of a diasporic identity when experiencing their culture in relation to language. The Areíto/Areítos is a Taino ceremony in which song, dance, music and poetry are combined. Initially believed to simply mean ‘group’ in Taino Arawakan, Spanish colonizers used the word to catagorise all forms of song and dance. Eventually, the Areíto was performed by the Taino as an act of resistance, and reclamation. 2021
- Griot Areítos (Extract 2)
- A Visceral narrative told by a griot-of-sorts, who details the yearly harvest of some neighbourhood fruit and their annual collaborative language formation, with embedded acts of both verbal and physical resistance, taken from examples throughout history. Explores the role of the parent/home for those of a diasporic identity when experiencing their culture in relation to language. The Areíto/Areítos is a Taino ceremony in which song, dance, music and poetry are combined. Initially believed to simply mean ‘group’ in Taino Arawakan, Spanish colonizers used the word to catagorise all forms of song and dance. Eventually, the Areíto was performed by the Taino as an act of resistance, and reclamation. 2021