1st Edition
Narrative Mutations Discourses of Heredity and Caribbean Literature
By Rudyard Alcocer
Copyright 2005
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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Given the welcomed shift throughout the academy away from essentialist and biologically fixed understandings of "race" and the body, it is a curiosity worth exploring that so many sophisticated-and even radical-narratives retain physical and behavioral heredity as a guiding trope. The persistence of this concept in Caribbean literature informs not only discourses on race, ethnicity, and sexuality,... Read more
Introduction Chapter 1: Heredity and Discursivity: From Pre-History to the Plantation Chapter 2: Misce-gene-nation: Heredity and the Rise of Pluralism in Caribbean Narrative Chapter 3: Talking Flowers and Flowering People: Narrative, Plant Genetics, and Caribbean Identity Chapter 4: Bound Bodies: The Struggle in Caribbean Narrative against Biological Determinism Chapter 5: Hybridity and Its Mysteries: Heredity, Intertextuality, and Cultural Identity in the Caribbean Afterword Bibliography Index
Biography
Rudyard Alcocer studied at Emory University and the University of Iowa (Ph.D. 2002). He presently teaches Spanish and Paideia (Introduction to the Humanities) at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. He has an essay forthcoming in the anthology Music, Writing, and Cultural Unity in the Caribbean (Africa World Press).
