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.

• | Author: Ana Rodriguez Navas
• | Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 28, 2018
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780813941622
• | ISBN-10: 0813941628