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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Rodríguez Navas, Ana Belén, 1977- author.
Imprint:	Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	1 online resource (x, 293 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	New World studies New World studies.
Subject:	Caribbean literature -- History and criticism. Gossip in literature. Caribbean literature. Gossip in literature. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12542070

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ISBN:	9780813941622 0813941628 9780813941615 081394161X 0813941636 9780813941639
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-274) and index. English.
Summary:	"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 hitherto unremarked status as an essentially adversarial practice, offers an important new perspective on the literature, culture, and power dynamics of the Caribbean region"--
Other form:	081394161X 0813941628

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. 1. "A Mouthful of Dynamite"
3. 2. "Parallel Versions"
4. 3. "An International Scandal"
5. 4. "Paginas en Blanco"
6. Conclusion