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Tropic Tendencies : Rhetoric, Popular Culture, and the Anglophone Caribbean.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Composition, Literacy, and Culture SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (230 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822979111
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tropic TendenciesDDC classification:
  • 427.9729
LOC classification:
  • PE3302
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A Jour Overt -- Chapter 1. Mas Rhetorica: A Brief Discourse on the Caribbean Carnivalesque -- Chapter 2. Structure, Strategy, and Rhetorical Parameters in Caribbean Expression -- Chapter 3. From the Darker Side of a Schism: Performance and the Prohetic Masque -- Chapter 4. "We Is People" : Earl Lovelace, Ethos, and a Rhetoric of Venacular Fiction -- Chapter 5. Inhabiting the Digital Vernacular -- The Old Talkers, The Caribloggers, and the Jamettes -- Conclusion. Or, Reprise fro the Carnivalesque -- Bibliography -- Discography.
Summary: A legacy of slavery, abolition, colonialism, and class struggle has profoundly impacted the people and culture of the Caribbean. In Tropic Tendencies, Kevin Adonis Browne examines the development of an Anglophone Caribbean rhetorical tradition in response to the struggle to make meaning, maintain identity, negotiate across differences, and thrive in light of historical constraints and the need to participate in contemporary global culture.
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A Jour Overt -- Chapter 1. Mas Rhetorica: A Brief Discourse on the Caribbean Carnivalesque -- Chapter 2. Structure, Strategy, and Rhetorical Parameters in Caribbean Expression -- Chapter 3. From the Darker Side of a Schism: Performance and the Prohetic Masque -- Chapter 4. "We Is People" : Earl Lovelace, Ethos, and a Rhetoric of Venacular Fiction -- Chapter 5. Inhabiting the Digital Vernacular -- The Old Talkers, The Caribloggers, and the Jamettes -- Conclusion. Or, Reprise fro the Carnivalesque -- Bibliography -- Discography.

A legacy of slavery, abolition, colonialism, and class struggle has profoundly impacted the people and culture of the Caribbean. In Tropic Tendencies, Kevin Adonis Browne examines the development of an Anglophone Caribbean rhetorical tradition in response to the struggle to make meaning, maintain identity, negotiate across differences, and thrive in light of historical constraints and the need to participate in contemporary global culture.

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