Difficult reading : frustration and form in Anglophone Caribbean fiction /

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"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"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marley, Jason R., 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Colección:New World studies.
Temas:
1900-1999
Caribbean fiction (English) > History and criticism.
Caribbean fiction > 20th century > Political aspects.
National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature.
Frustration in literature.
Roman antillais (anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Roman antillais > 20e siècle > Aspect politique.
Antillais dans la littérature.
Frustration dans la littérature.
Caribbean fiction (English)
Frustration in literature
National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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