Free Up Yuhself: Transgressive Bodies and Contestations in the Carnivalesque

Contributor(s): Attai, Nikoli A (Editor), Barratt, Sue Ann (Editor), Grant, Judy (Contribution by), King, Rosamond S (Contribution by), Baksh, Darrell Gerohn (Contribution by), Nixon, Angelique V (Contribution by), Barratt, Kai (Contribution by), Persadie, Ryan (Contribution by), Barratt, Sue Ann (Contribution by), Attai, Nikoli A (Contribution by), Haskell, Thomas (Contribution by)

ISBN: 9781978846609

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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Pub Date: June 9, 2026

Lexile Code: 0000

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.00" H x 0.00" L x 0.00" W ( 1.00 lbs) 188 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Critical Caribbean Studies

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Description:

This book examines how people actively utilize the carnivalesque - spaces of festivity and places of excitement, the extraordinary, the ritualistic - to confront, negotiate, disrupt, and transgress normative trends, boundaries, and perspectives in the Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora communities.

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