"I Stole the Torturer's Tongue": Caribbean Carnival Speaks Back to the Canon.
| Autor: | Marshall, Emily Zobel |
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| Zdroj: | Caribbean Quarterly; Dec2019, Vol. 65 Issue 4, p621-645, 25p |
| Abstrakt: | The article examines the traditional masquerade characters in Caribbean Carnivals and their incorporation of speechifying practices in their oral performances. Topics discussed include rituals of mimicry and resistance, interpretation of violent and traumatic memories of enslavement in ritualized Carnival traditions and the author's argument that speechifying traditional in the Carnival provides an educational model to motivate Caribbean communities to engage with historical memory. |
| Databáze: | Supplemental Index |
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