Difficult reading : frustration and form in Anglophone Caribbean fiction / Jason R. Marley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marley, Jason R., 1980- author.

Series:

New World studies

New world studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean fiction (English)--History and criticism.

Caribbean fiction (English).

Caribbean fiction--20th century--Political aspects.

Caribbean fiction.

National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature.

Frustration in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

viii, 274 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Marley, Jason R., 1980- Difficult reading

ISBN:

9780813950136

0813950139

9780813950143

0813950147

OCLC:

1380861025