LEADER 02817nam 2200505 450 001 9910340602203321 005 20231114004517.0 010 $a0-8139-4163-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000009194828 035 $a(OAPEN)1005333 035 $a(ScCtBLL)bd3dd90d-66ce-4f75-b16a-0a03eae8edb2 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28215 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7300080 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7300080 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009194828 100 $a20231114d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIdle Talk, Deadly Talk $eThe Uses of Gossip in Caribbean Literature /$fAna Rodri?guez Navas 210 1$aCharlottesville, Virginia :$cUniversity of Virginia Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aNew World Studies 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8139-4161-X 311 $a0-8139-4162-8 327 $aIntroduction: gossip's embattlements -- "A mouthful of dynamite": gossip and the failure of community -- "Parallel versions": gossip, investigation, and identity -- "An international scandal": gossip, dissent, and the public sphere -- "Paginas en blanco": the legacy of the Caribbean gossip state -- Conclusion: radical gossip. 330 $aThe first book-length study of gossip's place in the literature of the multilingual Caribbean reveals gossip to be a utilitarian and deeply political practice-a means of staging the narrative tensions, and waging the narrative battles, that mark Caribbean politics and culture. Revising the overly gendered existing critical frame, Rodri?guez Navas argues that gossip is a fundamentally adversarial practice that at once surveils identities and empowers writers to skirt sanitized, monolithic historical accounts by weaving alternative versions of their nations' histories from this self-governing discursive material. Reading recent fiction from the Hispanic, Anglophone, and Francophone Caribbean and their diasporas, alongside poetry, song lyrics, journalism, memoirs, and political essays, Idle Talk, Deadly Talk maps gossip's place in the Caribbean and reveals its rich possibilities as both literary theme and narrative device. 410 0$aNew World studies. 606 $aCaribbean literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGossip in literature 615 0$aCaribbean literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGossip in literature. 676 $a809.89729 700 $aRodri?guez Navas$b Ana Bele?n$f1977-$01431923 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910340602203321 996 $aIdle Talk, Deadly Talk$93574926 997 $aUNINA