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CARNIVALESQUE BODIES:

2023
Chapter six steps outside of official organizations to see how marked people experienced the streets of Mobile and constructed their carnivalesque identities outside of these structures. Investigating what role marked bodies could play in white supremacist and heteronormative spectacles, it shows that although laws and customs enforced racial ...
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Dialogues with the Carnivalesque

Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art
Carnival emerges as an expression filled with nuances and paradoxes. While it challenges social norms and breaks established conventions, it is also vulnerable to governmental appropriation and its transformation into a tourist product. Examples of this duality can be seen in various forms, from the revered Afro bloc Ilê Aiyê in Bahia, Brazil, to the ...
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VICTORIAN CARNIVALESQUE

Victorian Literature and Culture, 2002
The Carnival is just over, and we have entered upon the gloom and abstinence of Lent. The first day of Lent we had coffee without milk for breakfast; vinegar and vegetables, with a very little salt fish, for dinner; and bread for supper. The Carnival was nothing but masking and mummery. M.
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The Carnivalesque and the Ritualesque

Journal of American Folklore, 2011
The author argues for folkloristic recognition of a "ritualesque" dimension in public events aimed at transforming the attitudes or behaviors of participants or spectators. Drawing on Bakhtin's concept of the "carnivalesque" as a parallel and source of comparison, the author explores the transformative mechanisms of public events such as Earth Day ...
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Carne, Carnales, and the Carnivalesque

2023
José Limón juxtaposes the subjugating, dominant discourses of elite Mexican thinkers like Octavio Paz concerning Mexican male, working-class, speech/body play with such performances as those experienced in Mexican-American south Texas.
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Carnivalesque as Theoretical Framework

2020
Given the rich layering of social-emotional-political meanings enmeshed in comedic performances, what appears currently lacking in scholarship is a robust theoretical framework that systematically teases out the fullness in the performativity of comedies.
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