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Gossip - long derided and dismissed by writers and intellectuals - is far from frivolous. In Idle Talk, Deadly Talk, Ana Rodriguez 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.

Idle Talk Deadly Talk

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    A Paperback by Ana Rodríguez Navas

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      Publisher: MP-VIR Uni of Virginia
      Publication Date: 9/28/2018 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813941622, 978-0813941622
      ISBN10: 0813941628

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Gossip - long derided and dismissed by writers and intellectuals - is far from frivolous. In Idle Talk, Deadly Talk, Ana Rodriguez 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.

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