Trinidad carnival
Subtitle: a quest for national identity
By: Peter van Koningsbruggen.
Series: Warwick University Caribbean studies
Publisher: Caribbean
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Carnival -- Trinidad and Tobago.; National characteristics, Trinidadian and Tobagonian.; Trinidad and Tobago -- Social life and customs.
Description: "Presents multifaceted analysis of Trinidadian carnival, a festival seen by author as a 'form of meta-comment on Trinidad within the performance of a kind of collective psychodrama.' Useful chapters are devoted to the history of carnival, its development into a national festival, the social elements that influence and impact the contemporary event, social dynamics, and carnival's linkage to national identity"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-283) and index.
"Translation of a revised version of my 1993 dissertation on the Trinidad carnival"--Ack.