Idle Talk, Deadly Talk. The Uses of Gossip in Caribbean Literature, Paperback/Ana Rodriguez Navas

Gossip - long derided and dismissed by writers and intellectuals - is far from frivolous. In Idle Talk, Deadly Talk , Ana Rodriguez Navas reveals gossip to be an urgent, utilitarian, and deeply political practice - a means of staging the narrative tensions, and waging the narrative battles, that mark Caribbean politics and culture.