Masking And Power : Carnival And Popular Culture In The Caribbean /

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Focusing on masking as a socially significant practice in Caribbean cultures, Gerard Aching's analysis articulates masking, mimicry, and misrecognition as a means of describing and interrogating strategies of visibility and invisibility in Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Martinique, and beyond.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aching, Gerard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social conditions
Popular culture.
Masquerades.
Carnival.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
Culture populaire > Caraïbes (Region)
Mascarades > Caraïbes (Region)
Carnavals > Caraïbes (Region)
Popular culture > Caribbean Area.
Masquerades > Caribbean Area.
Carnival > Caribbean Area.
Caribbean Area.
Caraïbes (Region) > Conditions sociales.
Caribbean Area > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: Masking, Misrecognition, Mimicry; PART I: Undisguised Masking; ONE: Dispossession, Nonpossession, and Self-Possession: Postindependence Masking in Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance; TWO: The New Visibilities: Middle-Class Cosmopolitanism in the Street; PART II: Masking through Language; THREE: Specularity and the Language of Corpulence: Estrella's Body in Cabrera Infante's Tres tristes tigres; FOUR: Turning a Blind Eye in the Name of the Law: Cultural Alienation in Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnifique; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J.

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