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Difficult reading : frustration and form in Anglophone Caribbean fiction / Jason R. Marley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New World studiesPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023Copyright date: �2023Description: 1 online resource (viii, 274 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0813950155
  • 9780813950150
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Difficult readingDDC classification:
  • 813/.5099729 23/eng/20230531
LOC classification:
  • PR9205.4 .M37 2023
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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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.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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