Performance and personhood in Caribbean literature
Subtitle: from Alexis to the digital age
By: Jeannine Murray-Román
Series: New world studies; New World studies
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780813938486; 9780813938479
Subjects: Self-perception in literature; Literature and society; Caribbean literature; History and criticism; Performance in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-237) and index.
Table of contents: title: Performance and the expansion of personhood in Marissa Chibas's Daughter of a Cuban revolutionary; title: Creole's thinking body: Patrick Chamoiseau and Marlon James; title: From spectator to participant: audience formation in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Tres tristes tigres, Oonya Kempadoo's Tide running, and Ernest Pépin's L'envers du décor; title: Staceyann Chin and Zoé Valdés: sexilic politics in the blogosphere; title: Dansez et revivez!": reviving personhood in Rosario Ferre's "Maquinolandera" and Jacques Stephen Alexis's Les arbres musiciens; title: Coda.