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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789616103321

Autore

Edmondson Belinda

Titolo

Caribbean middlebrow [[electronic resource] ] : leisure culture and the middle class / / Belinda Edmondson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8014-6014-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/9729

Soggetti

Caribbean literature (English) - History and criticism

Popular literature - Caribbean Area - History and criticism

Literature and society - Caribbean Area

Books and reading - Caribbean Area

Popular culture - Caribbean Area

Middle class - Caribbean Area

Black people - Race identity - Caribbean Area

Social classes in literature

Race in literature

Caribbean Area Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Early literary culture -- Brownness, social desire, and the early novel -- Gentrifying dialect, or the taming of Miss Lou -- Middlebrow spectacle and the politics of beauty -- Organic imports, or, Authenticating global culture -- Transnational communities and the new pop fiction.