Idle Talk, Deadly Talk
Subtitle: The Uses of Gossip in Caribbean Literature
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: Oct 22, 2018
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780813941622
Description: "A study of gossip's place in the literature of the multilingual Caribbean. Studying recent Hispanic Caribbean texts alongside diasporic literature and works from the region's Francophone and Anglophone traditions, Rodriguez Navas argues that the study of gossip, and especially of its hitherto unremarked status as an essentially adversarial practice, offers an important new perspective on the literature, culture, and power dynamics of the Caribbean region"--
Notes: Source title: Idle Talk, Deadly Talk: The Uses of Gossip in Caribbean Literature (New World Studies)