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Oral History Review Advance Access originally published online on August 26, 2009
Oral History Review 2009 36(2):261-262; doi:10.1093/ohr/ohp042
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Unmasking Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Nicaraguan Festival

Jill Hemming Austin

Indiana University, Bloomington

UNMASKING CLASS, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY IN NICARAGUAN FESTIVAL. By Katherine Borland. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. 248 pp. Hardbound, $50.00.

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Masaya, the provincial capital of Nicaragua, is recognized as the country's "Capital of Nicaraguan Culture." Here, residents distinguish themselves from urban Nicaragua and the world at large through a range of public festivals and other cultural expressions. Three of these festivals receive close examination in Katherine Borland's Unmasking Class, Gender, And Sexuality in Nicaraguan Festival: the carnivalesque torovenado masquerades, the transvestite Negras marimba dances, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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