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Masking and power : carnival and popular culture in the Caribbean / Gerard Aching.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aching, Gerard.
- Series:
- Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 8.
- Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carnival--Caribbean Area.
- Carnival.
- Masquerades--Caribbean Area.
- Masquerades.
- Popular culture--Caribbean Area.
- Popular culture.
- Caribbean Area--Social conditions.
- Caribbean Area.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 180 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (153-170) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9407-9
- OCLC:
- 560187318
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