Idle talk, deadly talk : the uses of gossip in Caribbean literature

Idle talk, deadly talk : the uses of gossip in Caribbean literature /

"A study of gossip's place in the literature of the multilingual Caribbean. Studying recent Hispanic Caribbean texts alongside diasporic literature and works from the region's Francophone and Anglophone traditions, Rodriguez Navas argues that the study of gossip, and especially of its...

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Main Author: Rodríguez Navas, Ana Belén, 1977- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Series:New World studies.
Subjects:
Caribbean literature > History and criticism.
Gossip in literature.
Caribbean literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: gossip's embattlements
  • "A mouthful of dynamite": gossip and the failure of community
  • "Parallel versions": gossip, investigation, and identity
  • "An international scandal": gossip, dissent, and the public sphere
  • "Paginas en blanco": the legacy of the Caribbean gossip state
  • Conclusion: radical gossip.

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