Caribbean middlebrow : leisure culture and the middle class / / Belinda Edmondson
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| Autore: |
Edmondson Belinda
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| Titolo: |
Caribbean middlebrow : leisure culture and the middle class / / Belinda Edmondson
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| Pubblicazione: | Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/9729 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Blacks - Race identity - Caribbean Area | |
| Social classes in literature | |
| Race in literature | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Caribbean Area Civilization |
| 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture--which is considered derivative of Europe and not rooted in the Caribbean--and authentic working-class culture, which is often identified with such iconic island. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Caribbean middlebrow |
| ISBN: | 0-8014-6014-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817207503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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