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Masking and Power: Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean
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An ambitious reassessment of the political uses of masking.
Focusing on masking as a socially significant practice in Caribbean cultures, Gerard Aching’s analysis articulates masking, mimicry, and misrecognition as a means of describing and interrogating strategies of visibility and invisibility in Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Martinique, and beyond.
Cultural Studies of the Americas Series, volume 8
"This book offers a useful account of how visual and verbal masks in Caribbean societies both conceal and reveal identities and social relations. Perhaps the greatest strength is that it cuts across three of the linguistic divisions of the region." — New West Indian Guide