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Narrative mutations : discourses of heredity and Caribbean literature / Rudyard J. Alcocer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alcocer, Rudyard J.
- Series:
- Literary criticism and cultural theory.
- Literary criticism and cultural theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caribbean fiction (Spanish)--History and criticism.
- Caribbean fiction (Spanish).
- Caribbean fiction--History and criticism.
- Caribbean fiction.
- Heredity in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- NARRATIVE MUTATIONS Discourses of Heredity and Caribbean Literature; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Heredity and Discursivity: From Pre-History to the Plantation; Chapter Two Misce-gene-nation: Heredity and the Rise of Pluralism in Caribbean Narrative; Chapter Three Talking Flowers and Flowering People: Narrative, Plant Genetics, and Caribbean Identity; Chapter Four Bound Bodies: The Struggle in Caribbean Narrative Against Biological Determinism; Chapter Five Hybridity and Its Mysteries: Heredity, Intertextuality, and Cultural Identity in the Caribbean
- Afterword Heredity, Narrative, and the Caribbean DiasporaNotes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-87564-2
- 1-135-87565-0
- 1-280-17511-7
- 9786610175116
- 0-203-50352-X
- 9780203503522
- OCLC:
- 475959456
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