Carnival art, culture and politics : performing life / edited by Michaeline A. Crichlow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crichlow, Michaeline A.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carnival.

Physical Description:

v, 188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

"Drawing on rich insights from cultural, post-structural and postcolonial studies, this book demands that we rethink Carnival and the carnivalesque as not just celebratory moments or even as critical subtext, but also as insightful performatives of social life anywhere, given the entangled times and spaces of these performances. The authors review Carnival's performative aspects not merely as a calendrical festival, but rather center attention on the relationship between carnival and everyday life, and on how people negotiate their social spaces and possibilities in the context of modern power. The book therefore seeks to highlight the knotted time-spaces of power and to demonstrate the dynamic interplay between state spaces and people's spaces that are being weaved by carnival's interlocutors. It demonstrates how Carnival and the Carnivalesque become analytic optics through which the relations of power in the social and political life of subjects who seek to tacitically or strategically vary their given identities, can be productively engaged." -- Publisher description.

Contents:

Introduction: Carnival Praxis, Carnivalesque Strategies and Atlantic Interstices / Michaeline A. Crichlow and Piers Armstrong

Carnival Time Versus Modern Social Life: A False Distinction / Gerard Aching

Feathered Footsteps: Mythologizing and Ritualizing Black Indian Processions in New Orleans / Stephen C. Wehmeyer

Bahian Carnival and social Carnivalesque in Transatlantic Context / Piers Armstrong

'The Return of Crazy Mother': the Cultural Politics of Carnival in 1930s Dijon / Philip Whalen

Ethnic Identity and Elite Idyll: A comparison of carnival in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay, 1900-1920 / Kristen McCleary

Incremental Art: Negotiating the Route of London's Notting Hill Carnival / Lesley Ferris

Carnivals against Capital: Radical Clowning and the Global Justice Movement / L. M. Bogad

Carnival time in the Kingdom of Coal / Mary Hufford.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780415692762

0415692768

OCLC:

730403888

Publisher Number:

99948847901