Deconstructing Gender in Carnival : : A Cross Cultural Investigation of a Social Ritual / / Valeria Sterzi.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2015] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | 1. Aufl. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Postcolonial Studies ;
7 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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