Difficult reading : frustration and form in Anglophone Caribbean fiction /

"This book argues that the aggressive, antagonistic elements common to mid-twentieth century Caribbean novels are designed to foster emotional responses that engender new forms of communal resistance against colonial power"--

מידע ביבליוגרפי
מחבר ראשי: Marley, Jason R., 1980- (Author)
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
סדרה:New World studies.
גישה מקוונת:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5053548
תוכן הענינים:
  • Introduction: The aesthetics of inscrutability in Caribbean fiction
  • The politics of interruption: metafictive critique and historical aporia in the midcentury Jamaican novel
  • To become so very Welsh: Denis Williams's The third temptation and the effacement of Afro-Caribbean identity
  • Language as animosity: pejorative speech and national identity
  • "The menace from the bush": abstraction and Indigenous violence in the work of Wilson Harris and Denis Williams
  • Rhysian disgust and the politics of complacency
  • Coda: Inscrutable pasts, inscrutable futures.