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