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Rodriguez Navas, Ana. Idle Talk, Deadly Talk: The Uses Of Gossip In Caribbean Literature. Charlottesville, Va: University Of Virginia Press, 2018. Isbn: 978-0-8139-4162-2, Jennifer E. Irish
Rodriguez Navas, Ana. Idle Talk, Deadly Talk: The Uses Of Gossip In Caribbean Literature. Charlottesville, Va: University Of Virginia Press, 2018. Isbn: 978-0-8139-4162-2, Jennifer E. Irish
Dissidences
This review of Ana Rodríguez Navas' Idle Talk, Deadly Talk: The Uses of Gossip in Caribbean Literature (2018) provides a comprehensive overview of the study, its contributions to the field, and demonstrates how it presents innovative approaches to post-1960s Caribbean literary production.
Performing Militancy In Laura Alcoba’S The Rabbit House (2008), Stephanie R. Orozco
Performing Militancy In Laura Alcoba’S The Rabbit House (2008), Stephanie R. Orozco
The Coastal Review: An Online Peer-reviewed Journal
Laura Alcoba’s The Rabbit House (2008), belongs to the cannon of post- dictatorship child survivors—who themselves lived under the precarious life of militancy during Argentina’s Dictatorship (1976-1983). This paper exams the image of a young seven-year-old child’s who undergoes serious confrontational mischief's due to her inability to fully acquire militant norms and live by adult rules because of her child-like nature during her stay in la clandestindad. Moreover, rather than assuming the role of an innocent child figure of the 1970s Left-wing revolutionary war, Alcoba’s child protagonist assumes a politically active character that has the ability to perform childhood as …