so why do i care about (anti) master narratives, mas and a set of other things people already dash by de way side? its simple: memory is a hell of a thing and i just happen to think its important. chalkdust had his reasons too:
“Most persons who have written on the Trinidad Carnival have stressed, at times over-zealously, the influence of the French on the origin and development of the festival in the 18th and 19th centuries. The accepted notion held in the Caribbean and even in Europe is that Carnival in Trinidad & Tobago was first associated with France, whose advent to Caribbean in the late 18th century brought lots of French traits to the island, including the institution of Carnival. Furthermore, it is believed among Caribbean academics that Trinidad’s Carnival, through social change and fed with European inputs, developed from a crude festival of stick fights and European rivalry, into one involving European costuming, a display of European styles, history, values, attitudes and music. The changes have not been historically explained, and the African peoples in Trinidad have not been adequately credited for their noble contributions which I have observed from my research and study of Caribbean, African and African-American history. This wrong, my study seeks to put right” (Rituals of Power & Rebellion, ix, Preface)
when mas was mas…
Zahra Gordon 
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