Difficult Reading: Frustration and Form in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction (New World Studies) - Tapa dura

Marley, Jason R

 
9780813950136: Difficult Reading: Frustration and Form in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction (New World Studies)
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ISBN 10: 0813950139 ISBN 13: 9780813950136
Editorial: University of Virginia Press, 2023

Sinopsis

Difficult Reading offers a new approach to formal experimentation in Caribbean literature. In this insightful study, Jason Marley demonstrates how the aggressive, antagonistic elements common to the mid-twentieth-century Caribbean novel foster emotional responses that spark new forms of communal resistance against colonial power.

Marley illustrates how experimental Caribbean writers repeatedly implicate their readers in colonial domination in ways that are intended to unsettle and discomfort. In works such as Denis Williams’s The Third Temptation, Wilson Harris’s The Secret Ladder, and Vera Bell’s overlooked prose poem Ogog, acts of colonial atrocity-such as the eradication of Indigenous populations in Guyana, the construction of the Panama Canal, or the disenfranchisement of Afro-Jamaican communities-become mired in aesthetic obfuscation, forcing the reader to confront and rethink their own relationship to these events. In this way, new literary forms engender new forms of insight and outrage, fostering a newly inspired relation to resistance.

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Jason R. Marley is Associate Professor of English at Francis Marion University.

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Editorial
University of Virginia Press
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0813950139
ISBN 13 
9780813950136
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
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9780813950143: Difficult Reading: Frustration and Form in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction (New World Studies)

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ISBN 10:  0813950147 ISBN 13:  9780813950143
Editorial: University of Virginia Press, 2023
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