Resumen

LIENHARD, Martin. Voice, body, space, time: the “oral” performance San Benito in Gibraltar (Zulia, Venezuela). Tóp. Sem [online]. 2024, n.51, pp.139-148.  Epub 08-Dic-2023. ISSN 2594-0619.

This paper emphasizes the enormous interest that the concept of performance has for the study of oral literature and orality in general, a concept whose use suggests, by relativizing the centrality of the verbal, to move from the study of “orality” to the study of oral-gesturality in its space and contexts. It is proposed to consider these “contexts” as true components of the oral-gestural performance. The documentary Los chimbángueles de San Benito or El amor del tambor (available on Vimeo), is part of this work.

Palabras llave : orality; performance; documentary cinema; identity; Afro-American cultures.