Masking and power : carnival and popular culture in the Caribbean / / Gerard Aching

• Autore: Aching Gerard
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 180 pages)
• Disciplina: 394.25/09729
• Soggetto topico: Carnival - Caribbean Area; Masquerades - Caribbean Area; Popular culture - Caribbean Area
• Soggetto geografico: Caribbean Area Social conditions
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (153-170) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Masking & power
• Titolo autorizzato: Masking and power
• ISBN: 0-8166-9407-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784204203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cultural studies of the Americas ; ; 8.