Tropic tendencies
Subtitle: rhetoric, popular culture, and the anglophone Caribbean
By: Kevin Adonis Browne
Series: Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780822962595
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: English language; Rhetoric; Popular culture; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
Description: "A legacy of slavery, abolition, colonialism, and class struggle has profoundly impacted the people and culture of the Caribbean. In Tropic Tendencies, Kevin Adonis Browne examines the development of an Anglophone Caribbean rhetorical tradition in response to the struggle to make meaning, maintain identity, negotiate across differences, and thrive in light of historical constraints and the need to participate in contemporary global culture"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Mas Rhetorica: A Brief Discourse on the Caribbean Carnivalesque; title: ch. 2 Structure, Strategy, and Rhetorical Parameters in Caribbean Expression; title: ch. 3 From the Darker Side of a Schism: Performance and the Prophetic Masque; title: ch. 4 "We Is People": Earl Lovelace, Ethos, and a Rhetoric of Vernacular Fiction; title: ch. 5 Inhabiting the Digital Vernacular: The Old Talkers, the Caribloggers, and the Jamettes; title: Conclusion; or, Reprise for the Carnivalesque.