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Autore |
Browne Kevin Adonis |
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Titolo |
Tropic tendencies : rhetoric, popular culture, and the anglophone Caribbean / / Kevin Adonis Browne |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (230 p.) |
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Collana |
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Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Caribbean Area |
English language - Caribbean Area - Rhetoric |
Popular culture - Caribbean Area |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references, discography and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction: A Jour Overt""; ""Chapter 1. Mas Rhetorica: A Brief Discourse on the Caribbean Carnivalesque""; ""Chapter 2. Structure, Strategy, and Rhetorical Parameters in Caribbean Expression ""; ""Chapter 3. From the Darker Side of a Schism: Performance and the Prohetic Masque ""; ""Chapter 4. ""We Is People"" : Earl Lovelace, Ethos, and a Rhetoric of Venacular Fiction ""; ""Chapter 5. Inhabiting the Digital Vernacular; The Old Talkers, The Caribloggers, and the Jamettes""; ""Conclusion. Or, Reprise fro the Carnivalesque"" |
""Bibliography """"Discography "" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"A legacy of slavery, abolition, colonialism, and class struggle has profoundly impacted the people and culture of the Caribbean. In Tropic Tendencies, Kevin Adonis Browne examines the development of an Anglophone Caribbean rhetorical tradition in response to the struggle to make meaning, maintain identity, negotiate across differences, and thrive in light of historical constraints and the need to participate in contemporary global culture"-- |
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