Narrative Mutations: Discourses of Heredity and Caribbean Literature: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Autor Rudyard Alcoceren Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 sep 2013
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780415861502
ISBN-10: 0415861500
Pagini: 238
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0415861500
Pagini: 238
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Rudyard Alcocer studied at Emory University and the University of Iowa (Ph.D. 2002). He presently teaches Spanish and Paideia (Introduction to the Humanities) at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. He has an essay forthcoming in the anthology Music, Writing, and Cultural Unity in the Caribbean (Africa World Press).
Cuprins
Introduction Chapter 1: Heredity and Discursivity: From Pre-History to the Plantation Chapter 2: Misce-gene-nation: Heredity and the Rise of Pluralism in Caribbean Narrative Chapter 3: Talking Flowers and Flowering People: Narrative, Plant Genetics, and Caribbean Identity Chapter 4: Bound Bodies: The Struggle in Caribbean Narrative against Biological Determinism Chapter 5: Hybridity and Its Mysteries: Heredity, Intertextuality, and Cultural Identity in the Caribbean Afterword Bibliography Index
Descriere
Given the welcomed shift throughout the academy away from essentialist and biologically fixed understandings of "race" and the body, it is a curiosity worth exploring that so many sophisticated-and even radical-narratives retain physical and behavioral heredity as a guiding trope. The persistence of this concept in Caribbean literature informs not only discourses on race, ethnicity, and sexuality, but also conceptions of personal and regional identity in a postcolonial societies once dominated by slavery and the plantation. In this book, Rudyard Alcocer offers a theory of Caribbean narrative, accounting for the complex interactions between scientific and literary discourses while expanding the horizons of narrative studies in general. Covering works from Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea through contemporary fiction from the Hispanic Caribbean, Narrative Mutations analyzes the processes and concepts associated with heredity in exploring what it means to be "Caribbean."<