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The first book-length study of gossip's place in the literature of the multilingual Caribbean reveals gossip to be a utilitarian and deeply political practice-a means of staging the narrative tensions, and waging the narrative battles, that mark Caribbean politics and culture. Revising the overly gendered existing critical frame, Rodríguez Navas argues that gossip is a fundamentally adversarial practice that at once surveils identities and empowers writers to skirt sanitized, monolithic historical accounts by weaving alternative versions of their nations' histories from this self-governing discursive material. Reading recent fiction from the Hispanic, Anglophone, and Francophone Caribbean and their diasporas, alongside poetry, song lyrics, journalism, memoirs, and political essays, Idle Talk, Deadly Talk maps gossip's place in the Caribbean and reveals its rich possibilities as both literary theme and narrative device.

Literary studies: general --- Literature --- Literature. --- Caribbean literature --- Gossip in literature. --- History and criticism.

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"In the mid-19th century, letters to newspapers in Finland began to condemn a practice known as home thievery, in which farm mistresses pilfered goods from their farms to sell behind the farm master's back. Why did farm mistresses engage home thievery and why were writers so harsh in their disapproval of it? Why did many men in their letters nonetheless sympathize with women's pilfering? What opinions did farm daughters express? This book explores theoretical concepts of agency and power applied to the 19th-century context and takes a closer look at the family patriarch, resistance to patriarchal power by farm mistresses and their daughters, and the identities of those Finnish men who already in the 1850s and 1860s sought to defend the rights of rural farm women."

Rural women --- Finnish newspapers --- Employee theft --- Gossip --- Patriarchy --- History --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Finland --- Rural conditions --- Androcracy --- Patriarchal families --- Fathers --- Families --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Patrilineal kinship --- Communication --- Employee pilferage --- Pilferage, Employee --- Employee crimes --- Theft --- Newspapers --- Women --- Finnland --- Suomi --- Fen-lan --- Finli︠a︡ndii︠a︡ --- Souomi --- Finlândia --- Finlande --- Finlandii︠a︡ --- Fen-lan kung ho kuo --- Republic of Finland --- Finnlando --- Suomen tasavalta --- Republiken Finland --- フィンランド --- Finrando --- פינלנד --- Finland (Grand Duchy) --- Finland (Grand duchy)