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.
University Of Virginia Press Idle talk, deadly talk. the uses of gossip in caribbean literature, paperback/ana rodriguez navas
