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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מחבר ראשי: Sterzi, Valeria (Author)
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2015]
מהדורה:1. Aufl.
סדרה:Postcolonial Studies ; 7
גישה מקוונת:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv371c8gc
תוכן הענינים:
  • 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