Trinidad carnival : a quest for national identity
著者
書誌事項
Trinidad carnival : a quest for national identity
（Warwick University Caribbean studies）
Caribbean, 1997
- : pbk
- タイトル別名
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Carnaval van Trinidad
- 統一タイトル
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Carnaval van Trinidad
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注記
"Translation of a revised version of my 1993 dissertation on the Trinidad carnival"--Ack
Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-283) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The Trinidad carnival is a complex product wrought by two centuries of history in which it has successfully undergone the cultural and ideological influences of the white planter elite, the black lower class and the Creole middle claaa process which has conferred on the festival a hybrid cultural baggage. Does this mean that the present-day carnival has become a broken-winged festival, an innocent tourist attraction to uphold a lost folk tradition? The author of this text argues against this. Instead the fading away of boundaries between what were orignially class-bound socio-cultural spheres within the festival provides an oportunity for entirely new forms of exchange and confrontation. The varied influences of past centuries have combined under the auspices of the dominant Creole middle class, into a form which can reflect contemporary social conflicts and problems. This text illustrates the festival's potential to create an atmosphere where topics emerge for discussion which extend beyond the organizational and content boundaries of the carnival itself.
目次
- The history of the Trinidad carnival in the 19th-century
- the development of the Jamet carnival into a national festival
- the social and political significance of the Creole middle class and its increasing intervention in the "black bacchanal"
- contemporary Trinidad, stage of the greatest show on Earth
- reputation versus respectability
- the dynamic interplay of conflicting orientations - between Miami and Africa
- the spirit of Canboulay - the socio-cultural autonomy of carnival
- carnival as a vehicle in the quest for national identity.
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