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CONTENTS List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: A Jour Ouvert 1 Chapter 1. Mas Rhetorica: A Brief Discourse on the Caribbean Carnivalesque 10 Chapter 2. Structure, Strategy, and Rhetorical Parameters in Caribbean Expression 30 Chapter 3. From the Darker Side of a Schism: Performance and the Prophetic Masque 80 Chapter 4. “We Is People”: Earl Lovelace, Ethos, and a Rhetoric of Vernacular Fiction 103 Chapter 5. Inhabiting the Digital Vernacular: The Old Talkers, the Caribloggers, and the Jamettes 128 Conclusion; or, Reprise for the Carnivalesque 155 Notes 167 Bibliography 187 Discography 197 Index 199 ...