Disrupting the nation : gender transformations in the Trinidad Carnival

Author uses the presence and performance of women in Trinidad's Carnival, and the narratives surrounding them, to comprehend the linkages between Carnival and the Trinidadian national identity, between gender and the nationalist project. She contends that the public debates surrounding the perc...

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Main Author: Patricia A. De Freitas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Brill 1999-01-01
Series:NWIG
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Online Access:http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/nwig/article/view/3502