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Author Alcocer, Rudyard J.

Title Narrative mutations : discourses of heredity and Caribbean literature / Rudyard J. Alcocer.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages).
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Series Literary criticism and cultural theory
Literary criticism and cultural theory.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Heredity and Discursivity: From Pre-History to the Plantation; Chapter Two Misce-gene-nation: Heredity and the Rise of Pluralism in Caribbean Narrative; Chapter Three Talking Flowers and Flowering People: Narrative, Plant Genetics, and Caribbean Identity; Chapter Four Bound Bodies: The Struggle in Caribbean Narrative Against Biological Determinism; Chapter Five Hybridity and Its Mysteries: Heredity, Intertextuality, and Cultural Identity in the Caribbean.
Summary In this book, Rudyard Alcocer offers a theory of Caribbean narrative, accounting for the complex interactions between scientific and literary discourses while expanding the horizons of narrative studies in general.
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Subject Caribbean fiction (Spanish) -- History and criticism.
Caribbean fiction (Spanish)
Caribbean fiction -- History and criticism.
Caribbean fiction.
Heredity in literature.
Heredity in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Alcocer, Rudyard J. Narrative mutations. New York : Routledge, 2004 (DLC) 2004019685
ISBN 020350352X (electronic book)
9780203503522 (electronic book)
0415971152 (Cloth)