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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2023.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 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.