TY  - BOOK
AU  - Browne,Kevin
TI  - Tropic Tendencies: Rhetoric, Popular Culture, and the Anglophone Caribbean
T2  - Composition, Literacy, and Culture Series
SN  - 9780822979111
AV  - PE3302 
U1  - 427.9729 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - PIttsburgh
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - English language-Caribbean Area
KW  - English language-Caribbean Area-Rhetoric
KW  - Popular culture-Caribbean Area
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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