LEADER 03359oam 2200685I 450 001 9910451056903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-135-87565-0 010 $a1-280-17511-7 010 $a9786610175116 010 $a0-203-50352-X 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203503522 035 $a(CKB)1000000000252115 035 $a(EBL)241997 035 $a(OCoLC)475959456 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000208126 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11175423 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000208126 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10240001 035 $a(PQKB)10235715 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC241997 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL241997 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10162746 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL17511 035 $a(OCoLC)826515889 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000252115 100 $a20180706d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNarrative mutations $ediscourses of heredity and Caribbean literature /$fRudyard J. Alcocer 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (213 p.) 225 1 $aLiterary criticism and cultural theory 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-86150-0 311 $a0-415-97115-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aNARRATIVE 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 Caribbean 327 $aAfterword Heredity, Narrative, and the Caribbean DiasporaNotes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aGiven the welcomed shift throughout the academy away from essentialist and biologically fixed understandings of ""race"" and the body, it is a curiosity worth exploring that so many sophisticated-and even radical-narratives retain physical and behavioral heredity as a guiding trope. The persistence of this concept in Caribbean literature informs not only discourses on race, ethnicity, and sexuality, but also conceptions of personal and regional identity in a postcolonial societies once dominated by slavery and the plantation. In this book, Rudyard Alcocer offers a theory of Caribbean narrative 410 0$aLiterary criticism and cultural theory. 606 $aCaribbean fiction (Spanish)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCaribbean fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHeredity in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCaribbean fiction (Spanish)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCaribbean fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHeredity in literature. 676 $a863.009/9729 700 $aAlcocer$b Rudyard J.$0964036 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451056903321 996 $aNarrative mutations$92186183 997 $aUNINA