Deconstructing Gender in Carnival : A Cross Cultural Investigation of a Social Ritual /
This book explores the complexity of the dialectic relationship between ritual-like activities and social structure; focusing on women's increasing presence in Trinidad Carnival and the ways in which their participation becomes part of the conflict over the efforts to change the basic distribut...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Bielefeld :
transcript-Verlag,
[2015]
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| Udgivelse: | 1. Aufl. |
| Serier: | Postcolonial Studies ;
7 |
| Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv371c8gc |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- I. Definition of Post-Colonialism: Hybridity, Mimicry and National Identity
- II. Re-Inventing Culture: the Caribbean Example. Introducing the Caribbean: History and Society
- III. Gender and Post-Colonialism
- IV. Between Rite and Performance
- V. The World Upside-Down
- VI. The Ambivalence of Trinidad Carnival. Music, Masking and Performance: the »Magical Mirror« of a Hybrid Society
- VII. Conclusion
- References
- Illustrations
- Backmatter