Caribbean middlebrow
Subtitle: leisure culture and the middle class
By: Belinda Edmondson.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801448140
Subjects: 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; Caribbean Area -- Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early literary culture; title: Brownness, social desire, and the early novel; title: Gentrifying dialect, or, The taming of Miss Lou; title: Middlebrow spectacle and the politics of beauty; title: Organic imports, or, Authenticating global culture; title: Transnational communities and the new pop fiction.