Ah come back home
Subtitle: perspectives on the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival
By: edited by Ian Isidore Smart and Kimani S.K. Nehusi.
Contributors: Smart, Ian, 1944-; Nehusi, Kimani S. K.; Springer, Pearl Eintou.; Adeyinka, Olaogun Narmer.; Alleyne-Detmers, Patricia T.; Moran, Patricia.; Martin, Vonulrick.
Publisher: Original World Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Port-of-Spain
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Carnival -- Trinidad and Tobago.; Carnival.; Trinidad and Tobago -- Social life and customs.
Other titles: Perspectives on the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: Going back home to the Carnival -- Kimani S.K. Nehusi; title: Carnival--identity, ethnicity, and spirituality -- Pearl Eintou Springer; title: Carnival, the ultimate Pan-African festival -- Ian Isidore Smart; title: The origins of Carnival : notes from a preliminary investigation -- Kimani S.K. Nehusi; title: A Carnival of resistance, emancipation, commemoration, reconstruction, and creativity -- Olaogun Narmer Adeyinka; title: Beyond borders, Carnival as global phenomena : "Going bananas, food for the devil" -- Patricia Alleyne-Dettmers; title: Experiencing the Pan-African dimension of Carnival -- Patricia Moran; title: Coming back home to take home back -- Vonulrick Martin; title: Its not French (Europe), it's really French-based Creole (Africa) -- Ian Isidore Smart.