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The document discusses the annual Mardi Gras celebrations in Jacmel, Haiti known as Kanaval. Participants create elaborate costumes and characters to act out political and historical stories and myths in the streets. Oral histories are provided of some prominent Kanaval groups that use surrealism and carnival to comment on and retell Haiti

Author

Tias Bradbury

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