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"--
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jezik: | engleski |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2023.
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| Serija: | New World studies.
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| Online pristup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5053548 |
Sadržaj:
- 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.