Idle Talk, Deadly Talk The Uses of Gossip in Caribbean Literature
The 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 over...
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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University of Virginia Press
2018
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| Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |