03413oam 2200709I 450 991078381200332120230617001926.01-135-87564-21-135-87565-01-280-17511-797866101751160-203-50352-X10.4324/9780203503522 (CKB)1000000000252115(EBL)241997(OCoLC)475959456(SSID)ssj0000208126(PQKBManifestationID)11175423(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000208126(PQKBWorkID)10240001(PQKB)10235715(MiAaPQ)EBC241997(Au-PeEL)EBL241997(CaPaEBR)ebr10162746(CaONFJC)MIL17511(OCoLC)826515889(EXLCZ)99100000000025211520180706d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNarrative mutations discourses of heredity and Caribbean literature /Rudyard J. AlcocerNew York :Routledge,2005.1 online resource (213 p.)Literary criticism and cultural theoryDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-86150-0 0-415-97115-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.NARRATIVE MUTATIONS Discourses of Heredity and Caribbean Literature; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Heredity and Discursivity: From Pre-History to the Plantation; Chapter Two Misce-gene-nation: Heredity and the Rise of Pluralism in Caribbean Narrative; Chapter Three Talking Flowers and Flowering People: Narrative, Plant Genetics, and Caribbean Identity; Chapter Four Bound Bodies: The Struggle in Caribbean Narrative Against Biological Determinism; Chapter Five Hybridity and Its Mysteries: Heredity, Intertextuality, and Cultural Identity in the CaribbeanAfterword Heredity, Narrative, and the Caribbean DiasporaNotes; Bibliography; IndexGiven the welcomed shift throughout the academy away from essentialist and biologically fixed understandings of ""race"" and the body, it is a curiosity worth exploring that so many sophisticated-and even radical-narratives retain physical and behavioral heredity as a guiding trope. The persistence of this concept in Caribbean literature informs not only discourses on race, ethnicity, and sexuality, but also conceptions of personal and regional identity in a postcolonial societies once dominated by slavery and the plantation. In this book, Rudyard Alcocer offers a theory of Caribbean narrativeLiterary criticism and cultural theory.Caribbean fiction (Spanish)History and criticismCaribbean fictionHistory and criticismHeredity in literatureCaribbean fiction (Spanish)History and criticism.Caribbean fictionHistory and criticism.Heredity in literature.863.009/972918.33bclIQ 00133rvkAlcocer Rudyard J.1578228MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783812003321Narrative mutations3857454UNINA