Episodio carnavalesco

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Title: Episodio carnavalesco
Subject: Bodies
Description: The one-page comic-strip with six black-and-white panels narrates how three well-off young men, while out on a drinking spree, buy carnival-style masks. One has a mask showing a caricatured African face. Arriving home very drunk, he goes to bed with the mask still on. In the morning, his mother comes into the bedroom with coffee, sees him asleep, mistakes him for a Black man, and screams in alarm that there are thieves in the house.
Country: Argentina
Format: Comic strip
Creator: Orestes Acquarone Salaberry, 1875-1952
Date: 1901
Identifier: 23/2/1901n.º 125
Source: Caras y Caretas. Seminario festivo, literario, artístico y de actualidades. Buenos Aires, 23 de febrero de 1901. No. 125.
Item Location: Biblioteca Nacional de España
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Related Bibliography: Adamovsky, Ezequiel. 2022. Comparsas de (o con) afrodescendientes en el carnaval de Buenos Aires, 1869-1926: Relevamiento, descripción y aproximación al problema de las interraciales. Revista de Historia Americana y Argentina 57(1): 37-69.
Rights Holder - Work: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Rights Holder - Media: Images from the collections of the Biblioteca Nacional de España.