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'Carnival and Power. Play and Politics in a Crown Colony.' is a new book by Vicki Ann Cremona, published by Palgrave Macmillan.

A book launch is being organised by the Department of Theatre Studies at UM in collaboration with the Malta Historical Society at the Auditorium (2nd Floor) of the University of Malta Valletta Campus, St Paul Street, Valletta on Tuesday 15 May at 19:00. The speakers at this event at Judge Giovanni Bonello, Prof. Paul Clough and Dr Stefan Aquilina. The general public is invited to attend. 

Vicki Ann Cremona is Chair of the School of Performing Arts at UM, Associate Professor at the Department of Theatre Studies and Head of Department, Dance Studies.

Carnival is both a space of theatricality and a site of politics. The book 'Carnival and Power' examines Carnival under British colonial rule (1800-1964), and shows how the theatrical event became a focus of resistance as well as an exercise and affirmation of power. It examines power and identity in relation to different social classes and environments .It analyses power and politics through street play, Carnival balls, satire, but also through political power struggles, particularly those between Dom Mintoff, Archbishop Michael Gonzi and the British colonialists that took place against a Carnival background, from the call to integration to independence. Focusing specifically on the Maltese islands, this work links the contrast between play and power to other Carnival realities across the world. 

Carnival and Power, Hardback, Palgrave Macmillan, 304 pp.

A full description is available online.

The book is distributed by BDL and can be ordered online from . An e-book version is also available.