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Autore |
Aching Gerard |
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Titolo |
Masking and power : carnival and popular culture in the Caribbean / / Gerard Aching |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2002 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vii, 180 pages) |
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Collana |
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Cultural studies of the Americas ; ; v. 8 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Carnival - Caribbean Area |
Masquerades - Caribbean Area |
Popular culture - Caribbean Area |
Caribbean Area Social conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (153-170) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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