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Carnival Is Woman : Feminism and Performance in Caribbean Mas /
"Women are performing an ever-growing role in Caribbean Carnival. Through a feminist perspective, this volume examines the presence of women in contemporary Carnival by demonstrating not only their strength in numbers, but also the ways in which women participate in the event. While decried by...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction / Frances Henry and Dwaine Plaza
- Women and the De-Africanization of Trinidad Carnival: From the Jamette to Bikini, Beads, and Feathers / Dwaine Plaza and Jan DeCosmo
- Stories of Resistance and Oppression: Baby Doll and Dame Lorraine / Frances Henry and Jeff Henry
- Jamette!: Women and Canboulay in 1881 / Philip W. Scher
- Taking the Queen to the Streets: The Jaycees Carnival Queen Competition and the Pretty Mas' Aesthetic / Samantha Noel
- Practicing Jametteness: The Transmission of "Bad Behavior" as a Strategy of Survival / A.D. Jones
- "Thirty Gyal to One Man: Women's Prolific Presence in the Trinidad Carnival / Asha St. Bernard
- From Devi to Diva: Indo-Caribbean Women Rising in Trinidad's Chutney Soca / Darrell Gerohn Baksh
- Caribana in Toronto: From Male Dominance to Female Agency / Dwaine Plaza
- Glossary
- About the Contributors
- Index