Carnival and Power Play and Politics in a Crown Colony

This book shows how Carnival under British colonial rule became a locus of resistance as well as an exercise and affirmation of power. Carnival is both a space of theatricality and a site of politics, where the playful, participatory aspects are appropria

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CARNIVAL & POWER Play and Politics in a Crown Colony VICKI ANN CREMONA

Transnational Theatre Histories Series editors Christopher B. Balme Institut für Theaterwissenschaft Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität Munich, Germany Tracy C. Davis Northwestern University Evanston, IL, USA Catherine M. Cole College of Arts and Sciences University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA

Transnational Theatre Histories illuminates vectors of cultural exchange, migration, appropriation, and circulation that long predate the more recent trends of neoliberal globalization. Books in the series document and theorize the emergence of theatre, opera, dance, and performance against backgrounds such as imperial expansion, technological development, modernity, industrialization, colonization, diplomacy, and cultural self-determination. Proposals are invited on topics such as: theatrical trade routes; public spheres through cross-cultural contact; the role of multiethnic metropolitan centers and port cities; modernization and modernity experienced in transnational contexts; new materialism: objects moving across borders and regions; migration and recombination of aesthetics and forms; colonization and decolonization as transnational projects; performance histories of cross- or inter-cultural contact; festivals, exchanges, partnerships, collaborations, and co-productions; diplomacy, state and extra-governmental involvement, support, or subversion; historical perspectives on capital, finance, and administration; processes of linguistic and institutional translation; translocality, glocality, transregional and omnilocal vectors; developing new forms of collaborative authorship. Series Editors: Christopher B. Balme (LMU Munich), Catherine M. Cole (University of Washington), Tracy C. Davis (Northwestern). Editorial Board: Leo Cabranes-Grant (UC Santa Barbara, USA); Khalid Amine (Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco); Laurence Senelick (Tufts University, USA); Rustom Bharucha (JNU, New Delhi, India); Margaret Werry (University of Minnesota, USA); Maria Helena Werneck (Federal University of Rio de Janiero, Brazil); Catherine Yeh (Boston University, USA/ University of Heidelberg, Germany); Marlis Schweitzer (York University; Canada). More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14397

Vicki Ann Cremona

Carnival and Power Play and Politics in a Crown Colony

Vicki Ann Cremona University of Malta Msida, Malta

Transnational Theatre Histories ISBN 978-3-319-70655-9    ISBN 978-3-319-70656-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70656-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018930503 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adapt