Carnival: A Mass Plays Mas’ [Caldwell Taylor]
Reading Time 2 minsDraft: Not for Quotation, Citation or Distribution Link to part 1 THE JAB JAB AND COMIC LICENCES ? [Part 2 of 2] “The molasses Negro [Negre Molassi] wears nothing. His whole body and face is smeared with an atrocious mixture of soot and molasses” – Lafacdio Hearn, after viewing Martinique’s 1887 Carnival. See Hearn’s “Two Years in the French West Indies” published in 1890. Jab in Haiti “A band of bare-chested horned men whose bodies are covered with sugar-cane syrup mixed with soot and charbon [charcoal] In Haiti these Carnival characters are called lanceurs de cord”. – Novelist Edwidge Dandicat in “After the Dance: A Walk… Read More »Carnival: A Mass Plays Mas’ [Caldwell Taylor]