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Enacting the multiple spaces and times of portuguese migration to France in YouTube humor: chronotopic analysis of Ro et Cut’s Vamos a Portugal
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We examine the production and contested reception of a YouTube comedic
performance by France-based comedic duo, Ro et Cut, involving Portuguese migrants in France.
Specifically, we analyze Vamos a Portugal, a video which depicts one Portuguese migrant family’s
preparation for their annual summer return trip from France to the Portuguese “homeland.” We
use Bakhtin’s notion of chronotope, i.e., discursive formulations of space, time, and person
mobilizable in interaction, to analyze how performers and commenters construct spatiotemporally situated images of Portuguese migrants, while simultaneously positioning themselves
spatio-temporally in relation to these images. In particular, we compare how France-based Lusodescendant and nonmigrant Portuguese commenters construct and react to the video. Many Lusodescendant commenters embrace the video as evoking a nostalgic personal, familial, and
Portuguese past, from the perspective of an urban French present. However, nonmigrant
Portuguese viewers in Portugal reject the video as evoking an outmoded and illegitimate version
of Portuguese culture, from the perspective of a contemporary Portuguese present. Our
comparison of the chronotopes through which differently positioned commenters interpret the
video illuminates the contested politics surrounding performances of Portuguese migrant and
national culture in the diaspora in France versus in Portugal.
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Humor Chronotope Luso-descendant Heteroglossia Youtube Diaspora