Deconstructing Gender in Carnival A Cross Cultural Investigation of a Social Ritual 1st Edition by Valeria Sterzi ISBN 3839413486 9783839413487

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ISBN 10: 3839413486

ISBN 13: 9783839413487 

Author: 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 distribution of power within society. Femininity comes forward in Caribbean carnival as the sexualized body that unmasks power relations which are simultaneously affirmed and denied.

Giving attention to the ideological process through which gender relations are constructed, this event is analysed in relation to economic, political, and social factors, as well as a consequence of the changes caused by the cultural clash of colonial and postcolonial society.

Table of contents:

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

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Tags: Valeria Sterzi, Deconstructing Gender, Carnival, Cross Cultural, Social Ritual