African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
314 p, "Set in Trinidad, Manu's obsession to play "diable" in the carnival leads him into conflict with his wife, Samdaye, and sets into motion a chain of events that threatens to destroy the lives of his family and neighbors." (Publisher)
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
183 P., "Demonstrating how Latin American magical realism and Holocaust literature reflect and refract in literary form the carnivalesque spirit of
inversion, intensification of experience, and hallucinatory strangeness. Drawing on the works of Mikhail Bakhtin, Carl Jung, James Frazer, and others, Danow is able to suggest a striking and subtle connection between two genres that on the surface
would appear to have little in common." --Lynn Gelfand, Folklore Forum 29:1 (1998), p. 130.
Lovelace,Earl (Author) and New York (Series Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
Persea Books
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
In Trinidad the martial arts dancer, Aldrick Prospect, fights the commercialization of the Mardi Gras carnival. Sick to see the country's traditions destroyed-- warrior contests have been replaced by games for tourists-- he joins a coup d'etat, serves a stint in jail and never dances again., 240 p
