Papers by Kimalee Phillip
Carnival engenders a period of festivity and cultural capital that has survived, arisen out of, a... more Carnival engenders a period of festivity and cultural capital that has survived, arisen out of, and is in response to, years of enslavement, colonization and indentureship. A miscegenation of European cultural expressions and African spiritualities and cultures, Caribbean Carnival has now become a culmination of celebration, song, art, fractured histories, spirituality and in that same breath, debauchery. These various elements that comprise Carnival are critical as they demand of us a rethinking, redefining and repossession of our multiplicitous selves. Participating in Carnival also allows revellers to be confronted with their own perceptions and manifestations of power, gender, sex and sexuality. Carnival permits the remixing and recreating of ourselves since it affords people the opportunity to mask and reveal, of their own volition, the multiple sexual and gender identities and expressions they may embody. This paper will explore Carnival as (i) a site to engage with gender tra...
Socialist Studies Etudes Socialistes, Jun 13, 2013
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Papers by Kimalee Phillip