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Autore: | Aching Gerard |
Titolo: | Masking and power : carnival and popular culture in the Caribbean / / Gerard Aching |
Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2002 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Masking and power |
ISBN: | 0-8166-9407-9 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910807644803321 |
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