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Difficult Reading : Frustration and Form in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction
Title
Difficult Reading : Frustration and Form in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction / Jason R. Marley.
ISBN
9780813950150
9780813950136
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (286 pages).
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Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE complete collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 14, 2023
Series
New world studies
Contents
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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