Carnival against the Capital of Capital

The medieval carnival, according to Russian literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtin, was a public festivity of excess in which people were free to violate social norms and subvert prevailing authority. Recent analysts have applied Bakhtin’s concept of carnival to contemporary political protests that incorp...

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Main Author: John L. Hammond
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online 2020-11-01
Series:Journal of Festive Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.h-net.org/jfs/article/view/47
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