02787nam 22006374a 450 991080764480332120200520144314.00-8166-9407-9(CKB)1000000000346808(EBL)310597(OCoLC)560187318(SSID)ssj0000281771(PQKBManifestationID)11221708(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000281771(PQKBWorkID)10306602(PQKB)10568801(MiAaPQ)EBC310597(MdBmJHUP)muse39464(Au-PeEL)EBL310597(CaPaEBR)ebr10151272(CaONFJC)MIL522778(EXLCZ)99100000000034680820020405d2002 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMasking and power carnival and popular culture in the Caribbean /Gerard Aching1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20021 online resource (vii, 180 pages)Cultural studies of the Americas ;v. 8Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4018-1 0-8166-4017-3 Includes bibliographical references (153-170) and index.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; IndexFocusing 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.Cultural studies of the Americas ;v. 8.CarnivalCaribbean AreaMasqueradesCaribbean AreaPopular cultureCaribbean AreaCaribbean AreaSocial conditionsCarnivalMasqueradesPopular culture394.25/09729Aching Gerard919743MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807644803321Masking and power4019697UNINA