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    Waving, — treel chapter 78 — | OmMunueun tier © tr Ss nkerogan “heal are beth - peak UC ef cual achin Poe velay Potutir STUART HALL ° Jar D DiAsbopa qelyetticn of oN auth cettaual 'an Rutherford fed.) Mentity: nce and Wishart, 1900, Hes of tleulily, quiere pyacli vel procduclton ( Meom Cerethecus ratyech From ‘Cultural Identity and Diag ora in Jonat Community, Culture, Para’ in Jonah; Difference London: Layee - adcldeccter ¢ cui TLERE ARE E i aD Ar LEAST TWO DIFFERENT ways of thinking about ‘cultural iy nf ist position defines ‘cultural identity’ in terms of one,-shared caluire’ a, of collective ‘one true: II hiding inside the many other, more supericial or artificially! “ No s1, which. people with a shared history.and ancestry bwld in. common, Within the terms of this definition, our cultural identities reflect the commie: historic and shared cultun des which provide us, as ‘one people’, with siable, unelanging anil v continuous frames of reference and meaning, beneath the shifting div'sions and vicissitudes of our actual history. This ‘oneness’, underlying all the other, more = sperfical differences, is the truth, the essence, of *Caribbeanness’, of the black experience. 11 is this identity which jaspora must siscover, excavate, bring to light and.express through Such a conception of cultural identity played a critical role in all post-colonial struggles which have so profoundly reshaped our world, It lay at the centre of the vision of the poets of ‘Négritude’, like Aimé Césaire and Léopold Senghor, ani of te Pan-African political Project, carlier in the century. be somtnues ie I and creative force in resentation amongst hitherto marginalised p: Seige forms oer a second, related but different view of oa postion recognises that,'af well asthe many points of sist, of deep and significant difference which co ‘what we really are vened ~ ‘what we have become" hes:intervened! n> “Wha entity’, without acknowledy jemi. This second re also critical points ‘one experience, one | Bt tate ty , rebate eres ie Cran | continuities 1 Prete ae eas lenge : ime it sense, is 2 matter of ‘becoming’ as well o§ gs vo the pit this econ sere at He isnot something which alrendy sconding pee, Fc future as much 25 to the pas time, h J ve, CulearalSdentities come from somewhere, ve histories. But, likey, Lo time, history and culture. ; constant transformation ‘at (rom being eternally eres ting wh bigot, jc ote coninot sly of history, culture faxed in some evsenilised pate mre ‘Tecovery’ ofthe pst ich i wating to be std per, Tar om be FT car ur sense of pu semi, rs found, and which when found, will sec the names we give to the diferent ays WS he narratives of the past: Dyeetent A tN ct bi Sr charicter of ‘the colonial XPOS — z ce psn ee Scanned with CamScanner aw ay periences,

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