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Article Excerpt
Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival. Edited by Garth L. Green and Philip W. Scher. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. [x, 254 p. ISBN-IO 0253348234; ISBN-13 9780253348234. $60.] Illustrations, references, index.
Errol Hill's The Trinidad Carnival: Mandate for a National Theatre (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1972), and an issue of the Caribbean Quarterly (4, nos. 3-4 [1956]) de-voted entirely to the Trinidad carnival, are perhaps the two primary sources providing the foundation tor a significant amount of carnival scholarship. Accordingly, Garth L. Green and Philip W. Scher's Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of A Trans-national Festival pays homage to these stud-ies, suggesting in the acknowledgements that this collection is in fact a fiftieth-year celebration of the 1956 Caribbean Quarterly special issue. A welcome addition to the catalog of globalization studies within the Caribbean diaspora, in this collection Green and Scher, citing the advanced nature of the carnival's unique hybridity, of fer several nuanced readings of globalization placing special emphasis on carnival as a historical product. Moreover, the essays in the collection approach and situate car-nivals (in Trinidad, New York, Toronto, Aruba, and others) "within migration pat-terns, diverse forms of colonialist discourse, forms of cultural resistance, and desires for cultural recognition" (p. 2). Green and Scher carefully selected essays for this collection that reflect the identity crisis within the parent Trinidadian carnival, while paying special attention to the transnational-ism of the offspring carnivals spread throughout the globe. Broadly conceived, this collection initiates a....
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