Drawing on rich insights from cultural, post-structural and
postcolonial studies, this book demands that we rethink Carnival
and the carnivalesque as not just celebratory moments or even as
critical subtext, but also as insightful performatives of social
life anywhere, given the entangled times and spaces of these
performances. The authors review Carnival's performative aspects
not merely as a calendrical festival, but rather center attention
on the relationship between carnival and everyday life, and on how
people negotiate their social spaces and possibilities in the
context of modern power. The book therefore seeks to highlight the
knotted time-spaces of power and to demonstrate the dynamic
interplay between state spaces and people's spaces that are being
weaved by carnival's interlocutors. It demonstrates how Carnival
and the Carnivalesque become analytic optics through which the
relations of power in the social and political life of subjects who
seek to tacitically or strategically vary their given identities,
can be productively engaged. This book was originally published as
a special issue of Social Identities: Journal for the Study of
Race, Nation and Culture.
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