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Idle Talk, Deadly Talk: The Uses Of Gossip In Caribbean Literature, Ana B. Rodriguez Navas
Idle Talk, Deadly Talk: The Uses Of Gossip In Caribbean Literature, Ana B. Rodriguez Navas
Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Chaucer called it "spiritual manslaughter"; Barthes and Benjamin deemed it dangerous linguistic nihilism. But gossip-long derided and dismissed by writers and intellectuals-is far from frivolous. In Idle Talk, Deadly Talk, Ana Rodríguez Navas reveals gossip to be an urgent, utilitarian, and deeply political practice-a means of staging the narrative tensions, and waging the narrative battles, that mark Caribbean politics and culture.
From the calypso singer's superficially innocent rhymes to the vicious slanders published in Trujillo-era gossip columns, words have been weapons, elevating one person or group at the expense of another. Revising the overly gendered existing critical frame, Rodríguez …
Gossip And Nation In Rosario Ferré’S Maldito Amor, Ana Rodríguez Navas
Gossip And Nation In Rosario Ferré’S Maldito Amor, Ana Rodríguez Navas
Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works
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Gossip And Nation In Rosario Ferré’S "Maldito Amor", Ana Rodríguez Navas
Gossip And Nation In Rosario Ferré’S "Maldito Amor", Ana Rodríguez Navas
Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works
A literary criticism of the book "Maldito Amor" by Rosario Ferré is presented. This novel was interpreted as a feminist text of narrative gossip to assert characters voice or own's viewpoint. The author's conception of gossip as a narrative leveling process contrast with the popular conception of the practice as women's talk like chattering housewives and servant girls in the province. An overview of the story is also given.