Gran Discurso, Isla Pequeña: La Speech Band de Tobago en Poesía Oral y Las tradiciones Orales
Publicado 2026-03-26
Palabras clave
- Tobago,
- Speech Band,
- spoken word,
- tradiciones orales
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Resumen
La Speech Band en Tobago constituye una forma artística popular de carácter folclórico, de teatro y oratoria que se presenta en eventos comunitarios, certámenes culturales y festivales de patrimoniales. No obstante, dicha práctica ha sido significativamente excluida de los estudios académicos dedicados a la genealogía de la palabra hablada contemporánea en el Caribe. A pesar de su papel fundamental en la producción cultural y la articulación de identidades tobagonianas, la Speech Band padece una forma de negligencia epistémica dentro de los Estudios Caribeños, campo que continúa dominado por narrativas trinitenses y por parámetros literarios anclados en la primacía del texto escrito. En este análisis, integro investigación archivística llevada a cabo en bibliotecas nacionales de patrimonio tanto en Trinidad como en Tobago, junto con entrevistas semiestructuradas realizadas a practicantes culturales y organizadores. Sostengo que la persistente invisibilización de la Speech Band es indicativa de una doble marginalidad: por un lado, las dinámicas políticas y culturales asimétricas entre las islas gemelas; y por otro, la relegación de las tradiciones orales dentro del canon literario caribeño.
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