CQ Volume 65, No. 4 (December 2019)

CONTENTS

Editor’s Note    /    481

Introduction: Power, Performance and Play – Caribbean Carnival and the Cultural Politics of Emancipation    /    483

               EMILY ZOBEL MARSHALL

FEATURE ARTICLES

“The City Could Burn Down, We Jammin’ Still!”:  The History and Tradition of Cultural Resistance in the Art, Music, Masquerade and Politics of the Caribbean Carnival    /    491

                MICHAEL LA ROSE

“The Independence, Energy and Creative Talent Carnival Can Do Other Wonders” : C.L.R. James on Carnival    /    513

                CHRISTIAN HOGSBJERG

On the Trail of Joe Talmana: the Kumbule Movement in the Continuum of African Cultural Resistance    /    534

                EINTOU PEARL SPRINGER

The Caribbean Carnival: Yearning for Freedom    /    553

                 MAX  FARRAR

The Power of Play: Performance Time and Space in the Caribbean Carnival World    /    575

                 MILLA COZART RIGGIO

How Did the Devil Cross the Deep Blue Sea?  Orality and the Preservation of Horned and Devil Mas in Caribbean Carnivals     /     603

                 TOLA DABIRI

“I Stole the Torturer’s Tongue”: Caribbean Carnival Speaks Back to the Canon     /   621

                  EMILY ZOBEL MARSHALL

BOOK REVIEWS

Kevin Adonis Browne, High Mas: Carnival and the Poetic of Caribbean Culture     /   646

                   REVIEWED BY RAYMOND RAMCHARITAR

Rita Pemberton, Debbie McCollin, Gelien Matthews, Michael Toussaint, Historical Dictionary of Trinidad and Tobago     /   649

                   REVIEWED BY BRIDGET BRERETON

Louis Onuorah Chude-Sokei, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics  /   652

                    REVIEWED BY ANDREW KETTLER

Contributors     /     655

Books for Review    /    657

Submission Guidelines    /    660