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... superior to them. Bakhtin expanded the Western approach to laughter when he underscored how carnivalesque laughter resists the political status quo. This chapter contends that Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao structures a fascinating interplay between sudden glory and the carnivalesque...

..., including elaborate displays of fountains in the desert, as acts of hubris. Yet the appeal of such spectacles cannot be denied, as well as the social struggles embedded in them. This chapter uses Bakhtin’s notion of the carnivalesque to explore the significance of sparkling displays of a life-giving...

... elaborate displays of fountains in the desert, as acts of hubris. Yet the appeal of such spectacles cannot be denied, as well as the social struggles embedded in them. This chapter uses Bakhtin’s notion of the carnivalesque to explore the significance of sparkling displays of a life-giving substance...

... approach to laughter when he underscored how carnivalesque laughter resists the political status quo. This chapter contends that Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao structures a fascinating interplay between sudden glory and the carnivalesque laughter of the oppressed. Although hyper...

..., rather than a solution. shopping malls passing carnivalesque resignation cruel optimism ...

... indirection, it is argued that Afro-modern diasporic traditions of masquerade convey critical optimism when they acknowledge that tyrannical identities are always susceptible to mutation in the human condition of becoming. allegory assemblage carnivalesque creolization masquerade ...

... of signifying indirection, it is argued that Afro-modern diasporic traditions of masquerade convey critical optimism when they acknowledge that tyrannical identities are always susceptible to mutation in the human condition of becoming. allegory assemblage carnivalesque creolization masquerade ...