Narrative mutations : discourses of heredity and Caribbean literature / / Rudyard J. Alcocer
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| Autore: |
Alcocer Rudyard J.
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| Titolo: |
Narrative mutations : discourses of heredity and Caribbean literature / / Rudyard J. Alcocer
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (213 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 863.009/9729 |
| Soggetto topico: | Caribbean fiction (Spanish) - History and criticism |
| Caribbean fiction - History and criticism | |
| Heredity in literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Caribbean |
| Afterword Heredity, Narrative, and the Caribbean DiasporaNotes; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Given 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Narrative mutations |
| ISBN: | 1-135-87565-0 |
| 1-280-17511-7 | |
| 9786610175116 | |
| 0-203-50352-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910451056903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Literary criticism and cultural theory.