Carne Vale (Goodbye to Flesh?): Caribbean Carnival, Notions of the Flesh and Christian Ambivalence about the Body

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Perkins,Anna (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2011-12
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Sexuality & Culture
    Journal Title Details:
    15(4) : 361-374
    ISBN:
    1095-5143
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, Trinidad and Tobago, Women, Carnivals and festivals, Religion, Human body, Christianity, African cultural survivals, Sexuality, Lent, and Incarnation
    Notes:
    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.

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