Idle Talk, Deadly Talk: The Uses of Gossip in Caribbean Literature, Ana Rodriguez Navas

Автор: Navas, Ana Rodriguez
Название: Idle talk, deadly talk
ISBN: 0813941628 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813941622
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Chaucer called it ""spiritual manslaughter""; Barthes and Benjamin deemed it dangerous linguistic nihilism. But gossip-long derided and dismissed by writers and intellectuals-is far from frivolous. In Idle Talk, Deadly Talk, Ana Rodr?guez Navas reveals gossip to be an urgent, utilitarian, and deeply political practice-a means of staging the narrative tensions, and waging the narrative battles, that mark Caribbean politics and culture. From the calypso singer's superficially innocent rhymes to the vicious slanders published in Trujillo-era gossip columns, words have been weapons, elevating one person or group at the expense of another. Revising the overly gendered existing critical frame, Rodr?guez Navas argues that gossip is a fundamentally adversarial practice. Just as whispers and hearsay corrosively define and surveil identities, they also empower 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. As a means for mediating contested narratives, both public and private, gossip emerges as a vital resource for scholars and writers grappling with the region's troubled history.

Автор: J. Gordon
Название: Gossip and Subversion in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
ISBN: 0333607821 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333607824
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This study defines the stylistic, economic and political underground beneath the standard "plots" of Victorian fiction. It includes a discussion on the ways in which an "oral community" is deployed at the margins of novels, undermining the social values inherent in inscription.

Автор: Chen Jack W., Schaberg David
Название: Idle Talk
ISBN: 0520289773 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520289772
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Beginning with the Han dynasty and ending with the Qing, this book provides a cultural history of gossip and anecdote in traditional China.

Автор: Donna Harrington-Lueker
Название: Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading
ISBN: 1625343825 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781625343826
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture and tourist culture expanded in the United States. As an emerging middle class increasingly embraced summer leisure as a marker of social status, book publishers sought new market opportunities, authors discovered a growing readership, and more readers indulged in lighter fare. Drawing on publishing records, book reviews, readers' diaries, and popular novels of the period, Donna Harrington-Lueker explores the beginning of summer reading and the backlash against it. Countering fears about the dangers of leisurely reading - especially for young women - publishers framed summer reading not as a disreputable habit but as a respectable pastime and welcome respite. Books for Idle Hours sheds new light on an ongoing seasonal publishing tradition.

Автор: Harrington-Lueker Donna
Название: Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading
ISBN: 1625343833 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781625343833
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Описание: Drawing on publishing records, book reviews, readers` diaries, and popular novels of the period, Donna Harrington-Lueker explores the beginning of summer reading and the backlash against it. Books for Idle Hours sheds new light on an ongoing seasonal publishing tradition.

Автор: Eduardo de Faria Coutinho
Название: The " "Synthesis " " Novel in Latin America: A Study on Joao Guimaraes Rosa`s Grande Sertao: Veredas
ISBN: 0807892416 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807892411
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Описание: Eduardo de Faria Coutinho's analysis of Grande Sertao: Veredas places the novel at the intersection of experience, literary history, and artistry. Walking the text's balance between the real and the imaginary, and focusing his reading on the thread of ambivalence that snakes its way throughout, Coutinho weaves together the text's dichotomies between ethics and aesthetics, rural regionalism and urban universalization, and socioeconomic and psychological epistemologies. This book also serves to place Grande Sertao: Veredas in the trajectory of the history of the Latin American novel, creating an accessible point of entry to the genre, and grounding the text firmly within the literary tradition.

Автор: Esterrich, Carmelo
Название: Concrete and countryside
ISBN: 0822965399 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822965398
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Описание: From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Puerto Rico was swept by a wave of modernization, transforming the island from a predominantly rural society to an unquestionably urban one. By examining a wide range of cultural texts, Concrete and Countryside offers an in-depth analysis of how Puerto Ricans responded to this transformative period.

Автор: Jose M. Sanchez
Название: Academias y Sociedades Literarias de Mexico
ISBN: 0807890189 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807890189
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Описание: Traces the history of Mexican literary academies and societies from the sixteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Автор: Joy Mahabir, Mariam Pirbhai
Название: Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women`s Literature
ISBN: 041550967X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415509671
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book is the first collection on Indo-Caribbean women's writing and the first work to offer a sustained analysis of the literature from a range of theoretical and critical perspectives, such as ecocriticism, feminist, queer, post-colonial and Caribbean cultural theories. The essays not only lay the framework of an emerging and growing field, but also critically situate internationally acclaimed writers such as Shani Mootoo, Lakshmi Persaud and Ramabai Espinet within this emerging tradition. Indo-Caribbean women writers provide a fresh new perspective in Caribbean literature, be it in their unique representations of plantation history, anti-colonial movements, diasporic identities, feminisms, ethnicity and race, or contemporary Caribbean societies and culture. The book offers a theoretical reading of the poetics, politics and cultural traditions that inform Indo-Caribbean women's writing, arguing that while women writers work with and through postcolonial and Caribbean cultural theories, they also respond to a distinctive set of influences and realities specific to their positioning within the Indo-Caribbean community and the wider national, regional and global imaginary. Contributors visit the overlap between national and transnational engagements in Indo-Caribbean women's literature, considering the writers' response to local or nationally specific contexts, and the writers' response to the diasporic and transnational modalities of Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean communities.

Автор: Drabinski John E.
Название: Glissant and the Middle Passage: Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss
ISBN: 1517905982 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517905989
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: A reevaluation of ?douard Glissant that centers on the catastrophe of the Middle Passage and creates deep, original theories of trauma and Caribbeanness  While philosophy has undertaken the work of accounting for Europe’s traumatic history, the field has not shown the same attention to the catastrophe known as the Middle Passage. It is a history that requires its own ideas that emerge organically from the societies that experienced the Middle Passage and its consequences firsthand. Glissant and the Middle Passage offers a new, important approach to this neglected calamity by examining the thought of ?douard Glissant, particularly his development of Caribbeanness as a critical concept rooted in the experience of the slave trade and its aftermath in colonialism.In dialogue with key theorists of catastrophe and trauma-including Aim? C?saire, Frantz Fanon, George Lamming, Gilles Deleuze, F?lix Guattari, Derek Walcott, as well as key figures in Holocaust studies-Glissant and the Middle Passage hones a sharp sense of the specifically Caribbean varieties of loss, developing them into a transformative philosophical idea. Using the Plantation as a critical concept, John E. Drabinski creolizes notions of rhizome and nomad, examining what kinds of aesthetics grow from these roots and offering reconsiderations of what constitutes intellectual work and cultural production.Glissant and the Middle Passage establishes Glissant’s proper place as a key theorist of ruin, catastrophe, abyss, and memory. Identifying his insistence on memories and histories tied to place as the crucial geography at the heart of his work, this book imparts an innovative new response to the specific historical experiences of the Middle Passage.

Автор: S?nchez Prado
Название: A History of Mexican Literature
ISBN: 1107099803 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107099807
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: A History of Mexican Literature examines the development of literary culture in Mexico from its indigenous beginnings to the twenty-first century. Featuring a comprehensive introduction that charts the development of a complex canon, this History includes extensive essays that illuminate the cultural and political intricacies of Mexican literature.

Автор: Heike Scharm, Natalia Matta Jara
Название: Postnational Perspectives on Contemporary Hispanic Literature
ISBN: 081305494X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813054940
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Описание: Taking a postnational approach, contributors examine works by Jos? Mart?, Carlos Ruiz Zaf?n, Junot D?az, Mario Vargas Llosa, Cecilia Vicu?a, Jorge Luis Borges, and other writers. They discuss how expanding worldviews have impacted the way these authors write and how they are read today. Whether analyzing the increasingly popular character of the voluntary exile, the theme of masculinity in This Is How You Lose Her, or the multilingual nature of the Spanish language itself, they show how contemporary Hispanic writers and critics are engaging in cross-cultural literary conversations. Drawing from a range of fields including postcolonial, Latino, gender, exile, and transatlantic studies, these essays help characterize a new “world” literature that reflects changing understandings of memory, belonging, and identity.