Idle Talk, Deadly Talk : The Uses of Gossip in Caribbean Literature

Name: Idle Talk, Deadly Talk
Brand: University of Virginia Press
SKU: 9780813941622
Price: 6950 KES
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ISBN: 9780813941622

by Ana Rodriguez Navas

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series New World Studies

ISBN-10 0813941628

ISBN-13 9780813941622

Publisher University of Virginia Press

Imprint University of Virginia Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 28th, 2018

Print length 320 Pages

Weight 490 grams

Dimensions 15.40 x 23.00 x 2.40 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: general

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Gossip - long derided and dismissed by writers and intellectuals - is far from frivolous. In Idle Talk, Deadly Talk, Ana Rodriguez Navas reveals gossip to be an urgent, utilitarian, and deeply political practice - a means of staging the narrative tensions, and waging the narrative battles, that mark Caribbean politics and culture.

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