Selected papers from the English presentations given at a conference at the Institut d'anglais Charles V, Paris, Dec. 14-16, 1989.
Contents:
Part one: Colonialism and festivals: the art of resistance. Pinkster festival, 1776-1811: an African-American celebration / Geneviève Fabre -- Public rituals and the cultural making of the New York African-American community / Alessandra Lorini -- The Mexican/Chicano pastorela: toward a theory of the evolution of a folk play / María Herrera-Sobek -- Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz de la Ladrillera: notes toward a socio-literary analysis / Norma E. Cantú -- Part two: Rituals of renewal and return. El Santuario de Chimayo: a syncretic shine in New Mexico / Ramón A. Gutiérrez -- 'First you feed them, then you clothe them, then you save them': the hungry and homeless and the Sunday feast at a Pentecostal storefront church in East Harlem / Anna Lou Dehavneon -- The Celebration of life in New Orleans jazz funerals / Sybil Kein -- Part three: Celebrations and the creation of identities. Celebratin Rizal Day: the emergence of a Filipino tradition in twentieth-century Chicago / Roland L. Guyotte and Barbara M. Posadas -- Harvest celebrations in the rural south and the challenge of mass culture, 1865-1920 / Ted Ownby -- Imagining culture: New York City's village Halloween parade / Jack Kugelmass -- The 'Caribbeanization' of New York City: West Indian carnival in Brooklyn / Remco van Capelleveen
