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dc.contributor.authorRodriguez-Navas, Ana
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-24 03:00:29
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T10:09:20Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T10:09:20Z
dc.date.issued2018-10-02
dc.identifier1005333
dc.identifierOCN: 1147279403en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24778
dc.description.abstractThe first book-length study of gossip’s place in the literature of the multilingual Caribbean reveals gossip to be a utilitarian and deeply political practice—a means of staging the narrative tensions, and waging the narrative battles, that mark Caribbean politics and culture. Revising the overly gendered existing critical frame, Rodríguez Navas argues that gossip is a fundamentally adversarial practice that at once surveils identities and empowers writers to skirt sanitized, monolithic historical accounts by weaving alternative versions of their nations’ histories from this self-governing discursive material. Reading recent fiction from the Hispanic, Anglophone, and Francophone Caribbean and their diasporas, alongside poetry, song lyrics, journalism, memoirs, and political essays, Idle Talk, Deadly Talk maps gossip’s place in the Caribbean and reveals its rich possibilities as both literary theme and narrative device.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: generalen_US
dc.subject.otherLiterature
dc.titleIdle Talk, Deadly Talk
dc.title.alternativeThe Uses of Gossip in Caribbean Literature
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy51803e6f-f4d4-4539-9191-9c631d371c7d
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9780813941639
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.grant.number103135
oapen.grant.programKU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books
oapen.remark.public21-7-2020 - No DOI registered in CrossRef for ISBN 9780813941622
oapen.identifier.isbn9780813941639
grantor.number103135
oapen.identifier.ocn1147279403


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