Focuses on the role of women and women's bodies in Trinidad Carnival. Information on the book 'Afro-Creole: Power, Opposition and Play in the Caribbean; Views on the Janus-faced effect of women's bodily performance; Collusion of global capitalism in the marketing and commodification of Caribbean popular culture.
Explored is the history of Calypso music, which though originating in Trinidad, most likely has its roots among the many African cultural retentions that were transported with the ancestors to the west via the slave trade
Discussed is the career of fashion designer Francis Heady, whose interest in clothing began when, as a child in Trinidad, he worked with his mother, a seamstress. Heady has created fashions for celebrities such as Busta Rhymes and Missy Elliot
Trinidad and Tobago has worked to preserve its historical record through the Eric Williams Memorial Collection at the University of the West Indies Library in St. Augustine, Trinidad
Discusses the popular notions of sexuality that lay behind the women's bodily displays during Trinidad Carnival, the iconic Carnival experience in the region, and contrasts these to some Christian notions of the body and sexuality, which see the body ('the flesh') and sexuality, as problematic even sinful.
Addresses the place of Carnival in the creation of a national cultural narrative in Trinidad and Tobago and examines the role that such a narrative plays in the formation of a coherent national cultural identity
