By Kevin Adonis Browne
ISBN-10: 0822962594
ISBN-13: 9780822962595
Browne bases his learn at the notion of the “Caribbean carnivalesque” because the formative ethos using cultural and rhetorical construction within the area and past it. He reveals that carnivalesque discourse operates as a “continuum of discursive substantiation” that raises the likelihood of accomplishing wanted results for either the rhetor and the viewers. Browne additionally perspectives the symbolic and fabric interaction of the masque and its frequent use to enlarge efforts of resistance, statement, and liberation.
Browne analyzes rhetorical modes and methods in quite a few types, together with tune, dance, folklore, functionality, sermons, fiction, poetry, images, and electronic media. He introduces chantwells, calypsonians, previous talkers, jamettes, stickfighters, badjohns, and others as exemplary purveyors of Caribbean rhetoric and deconstructs their rhetorical monitors. From novels by way of Earl Lovelace, he additionally extracts thematic references to kalinda, limbo, and dragon dances that show the author’s declare of an lively vernacular sensibility. He then investigates the new edition and reinvention of the carnivalesque in cyber tradition, demonstrating the methods contributors either flaunt and defy normative principles of “Caribbeanness” in on-line and macro environments.
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