MwtDrChenziRa to Present at Islands In Between Conference in Guyana Nov2010

Abstract for Islands in Between Conference in Guyana –November 2010
Abstract Title: Caribbean Women in Spoken Word, Poetry and Choreopoetry: Exploring the Works of Esther Phillips, Opal Palmer Adisa & Others

Abstract Description:
“Caribbean Women in Spoken Word, Poetry and Choreopoetry: Exploring the Works of Esther Phillips, Opal Palmer Adisa & Others” explores the fusion of culture, traditional folklore and oral tradition of poetic verse and its’ uses in chore-poetry presentations. Comparative explication of cultural literacy as expressed in poetic selections entitled “Priestess of Language” and “The Writer’s Escape” by Opal Palmer Adisa (Jamaica); “Just Riffing” by Esther Phillips (Barbados); and “Yo Recuerdo” by ChenziRa Davis Kahina (Republica Dominicana/St. Croix). The interconnectedness of the poetic and linguistical fluency shared amongst women of the English and Spanish speaking Caribbean isles will be presented and linked to the cultural affluence and revolutionary pro-activity shared amongst women writers within the Caribbean in the 20th and 21st centuries. The use of poetry for the development of choreo-poetry presentations that provide dramatic foundations for contemporary spoken word by women literary artists of the Caribbean with American, British & Spanish influences will be concisely explicated and excerpts of select cultural literary selections shared. Interrelationships amongst the themes of self-determination, freedom, liberation, tolerance, integration, peace and cultural expression will be shared in a scholarly, audio-vigital and literary manner.

Author’s Name: ChenziRa D. Kahina, MS, NHD, PhD
Postal Address: POB 977 Frederiksted, St. Croix VI 00841-0977
Email: drchenzira@gmail.com or perankhinstitute@gmail.com