Leah Gordon – Kanaval

Leagues away from the sequinned, sanitised, corporate-sponsored carnivals found elsewhere in the Americas, the Madigra troupes of the Haitian port town of Jacmel enact and subvert myth, legends and the nation’s own histories, their improvisational costumes and surreal narratives a Vodou-charged blend of folk memory, political satire and personal revelation.

Eleven years after its first publication, this is the revised and expanded second edition which includes many new photographs and oral histories.

Leah Gordon (born Ellesmere Port, UK) is an artist, curator, and writer.