West African masking traditions and diaspora masquerade carnivals : history, memory, and transnationalism / Raphael Chijioke Njoku.
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- 9781787447202
- 1787447200
- Masquerades -- Africa, West
- Masquerades -- West Indies
- Carnival -- Africa, West
- Carnival -- West Indies
- Masks, African
- African diaspora
- Africa, West -- Social life and customs
- West Indies -- Social life and customs
- HISTORY -- Africa -- General
- African diaspora
- Carnival
- Manners and customs
- Masks, African
- Masquerades
- West Africa
- West Indies
- 394.26966 23
- GT4289.A358 N56 2020eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- On Origins of Masking: History, Memory, and Ritual Observances -- Aspects of Society and Culture in the Biafra Hinterland -- Bantu Migrations and Cultural Transnationalism in the Ancient Global Age, c. 2500 BCE-1400 CE -- Bight of Biafra, Slavery, and Diasporic Africa in the Modern Global Age, 1400-1800 -- Igbo Masquerade Dances in the African Diasporas:Symbols and Meanings -- Unmasking the Masquerade: Counterideologies and Contemporary Practices -- Idioms of Religion, Music, Dance, and African Art Forms -- Memory and Masquerade Narratives: The Art of Remembering.
"A revisionist account of African masquerade carnivals in transnational context that offers readers a unique perspective on the connecting threads between African cultural trends and African American cultural artifacts"-- Provided by publisher
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