Carnival, Memory, Identity & The Dragon Can’t Dance
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Paper instructions:
In the opening pages of The Dragon Can’t Dance, Earl Lovelace describes the poverty endured by the residents of Calvary Hill. According to the novel, what is the connection between their poverty and the history of slavery in Trinidad? How does carnival allow the residents to turn the world they live in “upside down”? Give a specific example of how carnival allows each of the main characters to turn their world upside down: Aldrick, Sylvia, Fisheye, Pariag, Philo, and Miss Cleothilda. How does Mas Man Peter Minshall turn the world upside down? For each example, explain how carnival performance resists poverty in the present; remembers the legacy of slavery and counters the violence of that legacy; and constructs new identities today. Please give page numbers for each of your examples. (500 or more words).
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