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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.

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Secret history, with its claim to expose secrets of state and the sexual intrigues of monarchs and ministers, alarmed and thrilled readers across Europe and America from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Scholars have recognised for some time the important position that the genre occupies within the literary and political culture of the Enlightenment. Of interest to students of British, French and American literature, as well as political and intellectual history, this new volume of essays demonstrates for the first time the extent of secret history's interaction with different literary traditions, including epic poetry, Restoration drama, periodicals, and slave narratives. It reveals secret history's impact on authors, readers, and the book trade in England, France, and America throughout the long eighteenth century. In doing so, it offers a case study for approaching questions of genre at moments when political and cultural shifts put strain on traditional generic categories.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy. --- Political culture --- Political culture. --- Politics and literature --- Politics and literature. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. --- History --- 1600-1799. --- Great Britain. --- English literature --- Secrecy in literature --- Gossip in literature. --- Literature and history --- English literature. --- Literature and history. --- Secrecy in literature. --- History and criticism --- Comparative literature --- Thematology --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism.