Idle Talk, Deadly Talk
ISBN
9780813941622
Idle Talk, Deadly Talk is a literary studies: general, caribbean literature, history and criticism book by Ana Rodríguez Navas.
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"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"--
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"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 unrem...
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Idle Talk, Deadly Talk was written by Ana Rodríguez Navas.