| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 180 pages) |
| Series |
Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 8 |
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Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 8.
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| 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (153-170) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Carnival -- Caribbean Area
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Masquerades -- Caribbean Area
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Popular culture -- Caribbean Area
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
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Carnival
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Masquerades
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Popular culture
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Caribbean Area -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85020291
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| Subject |
Caribbean Area
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816694075 |
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0816694079 |
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9780816640171 |
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0816640173 |
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9780816640188 |
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0816640181 |
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