Idle Talk, Deadly Talk: The Uses Of Gossip In Caribbean Literature

Gossip - long derided and dismissed by writers and intellectuals - is far from frivolous. In Idle Talk, Deadly Talk, Ana Rodriguez Navas reveals gossip to be an urgent, utilitarian, and deeply political practice - a means of staging the narrative tensions, and waging the narrative battles, that mark Caribbean politics and culture.

• | By (Author): Ana Rodriguez Navas
• | Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 22, 2018
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0813941628
• | ISBN-13: 9780813941622