"Making Cool Things Hot Again": Blackface and Newfoundland Mummering. "Making Cool Things Hot Again": Blackface and Newfoundland Mummering.

"Making Cool Things Hot Again": Blackface and Newfoundland Mummering‪.‬

Ethnologies 2008, Fall, 30, 2

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This article critically examines instances of blackface in Newfoundland Christmas mummering. Following Peter Narvaez's call for analysis of expressive culture from folklore and cultural studies approaches, I explore the similarities between these two cultural phenomena. I see them as attempts to work out racial and class tensions among the underclasses dwelling in burgeoning seaport towns along the North American seaboard that were intimately connected, at that time, through heavily-trafficked shipping routes. I offer a reanalysis of the tradition that goes beyond unconscious, symbolic ritualism to one that examines mummering in a historical context. As such, I present evidence which troubles widely held understandings of Christmas mummering as an English-derived calendar custom. Cet article examine d'un point de vue critique les occurrences de blackface au temps du mummering, a la periode de Noel a Terre-Neuve. En reponse a l'appel de Peter Narvaez pour une analyse de la culture expressive a l'aide d'approches empruntees a l'ethnologie et aux etudes culturelles, l'auteure examine les points communs entre ces deux phenomenes culturels. Elle les percoit comme des tentatives d'elimination des tensions raciales et de classe chez les classes les plus defavorisees vivant dans ces petites villes portuaires bourgeonnantes le long du littoral nord-americain et qui etaient intimement connectees, a l'epoque, par les routes maritimes tres frequentees. Elle propose une nouvelle analyse de la tradition qui depasse le ritualisme inconscient et symbolique pour examiner le mummering dans un contexte historique. A cet effet, elle presente des faits qui mettent a mal les interpretations communement acceptees du mummering de Noel comme une coutume calendaire provenant de l'Angleterre.

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Não ficção
LANÇADO
2008
22 de setembro
IDIOMA
EN
Inglês
PÁGINAS
54
EDITORA
Ethnologies
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243,7
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