ISBN:
0816640181
,
0816640173
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vii, 180 p)
,
23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Cultural studies of the Americas v. 8
Parallel Title:
Print version Masking and Power : Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean
DDC:
394.25/09729
Keywords:
Masquerades
;
Popular culture
;
Carnival
;
Caribbean Area ; Social conditions
;
Carnival ; Caribbean Area
;
Masquerades ; Caribbean Area
;
Popular culture ; Caribbean Area
;
Electronic books
;
Caribbean Area Social conditions
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
KL; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (153-170) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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