Narrative Mutations: Discourses of Heredity and Caribbean Literature (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) - Tapa blanda

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Alcocer, Rudyard

 
9780415861502: Narrative Mutations: Discourses of Heredity and Caribbean Literature (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
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ISBN 10: 0415861500 ISBN 13: 9780415861502
Editorial: Routledge, 2013

Sinopsis

Given the welcomed shift throughout the academy away from essentialist and biologically fixed understandings of "race" and the body, it is a curiosity worth exploring that so many sophisticated-and even radical-narratives retain physical and behavioral heredity as a guiding trope. The persistence of this concept in Caribbean literature informs not only discourses on race, ethnicity, and sexuality, but also conceptions of personal and regional identity in a postcolonial societies once dominated by slavery and the plantation. In this book, Rudyard Alcocer offers a theory of Caribbean narrative, accounting for the complex interactions between scientific and literary discourses while expanding the horizons of narrative studies in general. Covering works from Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea through contemporary fiction from the Hispanic Caribbean, Narrative Mutations analyzes the processes and concepts associated with heredity in exploring what it means to be "Caribbean."<

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Rudyard Alcocer studied at Emory University and the University of Iowa (Ph.D. 2002). He presently teaches Spanish and Paideia (Introduction to the Humanities) at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. He has an essay forthcoming in the anthology Music, Writing, and CulturalUnity in the Caribbean (Africa World Press).

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2013
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0415861500
ISBN 13 
9780415861502
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
238
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