A01=Rudyard Alcocer
Author_Rudyard Alcocer
biological determinism
caribbean
Caribbean Narrative
Caribbean pluralism
Caribbean Texts
Caribbean Writers
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Category=DS
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Category=JHB
cirilo
cultural hybridity
discourses
El Jefe
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hereditarian
Hereditarian Discourses
Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso
Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso
La Charca
La Huerta
La Isla
Las Hierbas
Le Da
literary genetics
literature
Lo Real Maravilloso
Los Factores
Miss Florence
Mother's Daughter
postcolonial identity
puerto
Puerto Rican Society
race theory
Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
rican
Royal Palms
scientific discourse in Caribbean literature
Se Lo
semilla
Superb
Verrazano Bridge
Vice Versa
villaverde
Wide Sargasso Sea
writings
Wuthering Heights
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415971157
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Dec 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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, but also conceptions of personal and regional identity in a postcolonial societies once dominated by slavery and the plantation. 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. Covering works from Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea through contemporary fiction from the Hispanic Caribbean, Narrative Mutations analyzes the processes and concepts associated with heredity in exploring what it means to be "Caribbean."
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 CulturalUnity in the Caribbean (Africa World Press).
