TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marley,Jason R.
TI  - Difficult reading: frustration and form in Anglophone Caribbean fiction 
T2  - New world studies
SN  - 0813950155
AV  - PR9205.4 .M37 2023
U1  - 813/.5099729 23/eng/20230531
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - Caribbean fiction (English)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Caribbean fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature
KW  - Frustration in literature
KW  - Roman antillais (anglais)
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Roman antillais
KW  - 20e si�ecle
KW  - Aspect politique
KW  - Antillais dans la litt�erature
KW  - Frustration dans la litt�erature
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Critiques litt�eraires
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
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