%0 Journal Article
%T Cr¨¦olit¨¦ and R¨¦unionese Maloya: From ¡®in-between¡¯ to ¡®Moorings¡¯
%A Stephen Muecke
%J PORTAL : Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
%D 2012
%I 
%X At the beginning of October 2009, UNESCO announced that the culture of maloya, a genre of song and dance from the island of R¨¦union, would henceforth become an international heritage item. The Geneva committee, in placing this endangered form of culture under their protection, defined it as a ¡®type of music, song and dance native to the island of R¨¦union¡¯. There is nothing unusual in the fact that a marginal item of ¡®immaterial¡¯ culture, originating from a tiny speck of France in the Indian Ocean, should be noticed by an international organisation and ¡®protected¡¯ in this way. This discussion paper investigates versions of creole and cr¨¦olit¨¦ and the role of theory in the kind of advocacy that promoted maloya. It argues that ¡®moorings¡¯ (Verg¨¨s and Marimoutou), as a concept for creolisation studies, is more robust, concrete and precise than Bhabha¡¯s ¡®in-between¡¯.
%K Maloya
%K creolisation
%K R¨¦union
%K cultural heritage
%U http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/2564