Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa

by Niyi Afolabi

Il Aiy 's unifying identity politics through Afro-Carnival performance, is embedded in its dialectical relationship with the rest of Brazil as it takes ownership of its oppressed status by striving for racial equality and economic empowerment. Against this complex background, performative theory offers significant new meanings. In ritualistically integrating Bakhtinian categories of free interaction, eccentric behavior, carnivalistic misalliances,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137578173
• ISBN13: 9781137578174
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"