Idle Talk, Deadly Talk : The Uses of Gossip in Caribbean Literature
The first book-length study of gossip's place in the literature of the multilingual Caribbean reveals gossip to be a utilitarian and deeply political practice-a means of staging the narrative tensions, and waging the narrative battles, that mark Caribbean politics and culture. Revising the over...
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University of Virginia Press
20181002
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