Carnival and Power Play and Politics in a Crown Colony /

• Main Author: Cremona, Vicki Ann (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Transnational Theatre Histories
• Subjects: Theater-History.; Performing arts.; Theater.; Theatre History.; Performing Arts.; Global/International Theatre and Performance.

This book shows how Carnival under British colonial rule became a locus of resistance as well as an exercise and affirmation of power. Carnival is both a space of theatricality and a site of politics, where the playful, participatory aspects are appropriated by countervailing forces seeking to influ...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Perceptions of Colony and Carnival
• 2. Power and its Historical Framework
• 3. Social Difference and Street Dynamics
• 4. Fancy Dress, Rank and Dignity: Power and Play in Carnival Balls
• 5. 'The sweet satires that prick where it is needed....': The Caricature of Power
• 6. Raising the Levels of Street Carnivals - Competitions and Prizes
• 7. Carnival or Carnivals? Political Wrangles Between State, Church and Party
• 8. Politics vs Religion and State - Beyond Carnival and the Carnivalesque
• 9. Carnival as a Transnational Cultural Phenomenon.