Difficult reading : frustration and form in Anglophone Caribbean fiction / Jason R. Marley.
Material type: TextSeries: New World studiesPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023Copyright date: �2023Description: 1 online resource (viii, 274 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0813950155
- 9780813950150
- Caribbean fiction (English) -- History and criticism
- Caribbean fiction -- 20th century -- Political aspects
- National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature
- Frustration in literature
- Roman antillais (anglais) -- Histoire et critique
- Roman antillais -- 20e si�ecle -- Aspect politique
- Antillais dans la litt�erature
- Frustration dans la litt�erature
- Caribbean fiction (English)
- Frustration in literature
- National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature
- 1900-1999
- 813/.5099729 23/eng/20230531
- PR9205.4 .M37 2023
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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