Abstract

GARCIA, Mar. Between discourses and practices: criolization, mauritiusness and globalization - the case of the emerging mauritius cinema. Diacrítica [online]. 2013, vol.27, n.3, pp.29-58. ISSN 0807-8967.

Cultural Creolization is an undeniable historical phenomenon in Mauritius. However, Indo-Mauritian communities rather favour a multicultural political model. This paper will describe and explain the social and cultural dynamics of Mauritius as a site of double tensions: competing claims between ethnic assertion and Creolization; and between discourses and practices. My second argument is that identity represents a marketplace of discourses in continuous socio-cultural change. In the second part of this essay, the emerging Mauritian cinema is presented as an artistic field where we can observe these negotiations in a privileged way, film productions being less institutionalized than literature. Hence their “cosmopolitan capital” is managed differently. Mauritian cinema tries to overcome ethnic affiliations by modelling a plural society that reproduces to a certain extent official discourses about nation, but transcends these also by a vision of a society produced by Creolization, open to future negotiations.

Keywords : Mauritius Island; Creolization; collective identity; Mauritian cinema; Made in Mauritius.

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