Carnival in Alabama : Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile /

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"Mobile is simultaneously a typical and unique city in the postwar United States. It was a quintessential boomtown during World War II. That prosperity was followed by a period of rapid urban decline and subsequent attempts at revitalizing (or gentrifying) its downtown area. As in many other US...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Machado, Isabel (Cultural historian) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Manners and customs.
Carnival.
Carnival > Alabama > Mobile.
Alabama > Mobile.
Mobile (Ala.) > Social life and customs.
Mobile (Ala.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of abbreviations
  • Preface: on Carnival cities and language choices
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Official narratives, origin myths, and tradition invention
  • Chapter 2. Regulating, controlling, and sanctioning revelry
  • Chapter 3. Downtown: Mobile's "Negro Main Street" and the emergence of the "Fruit Loop"
  • Chapter 4. Official "Colored" Mardi Gras and Mobile's Black liberation struggle
  • Chapter 5. Queering Mobile's Mardi Gras
  • Chapter 6. Carnivalesque bodies: defying the white gaze and respectability politics
  • Chapter 7. Plus Ça change?
  • Conclusion: Now you do watcha wanna
  • Appendix: narrators Index
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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