Idle Talk, Deadly Talk

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.

Barfa - de mult ridiculizata si respinsa de scriitori si intelectuali - este departe de a fi frivola. In Idle Talk, Deadly Talk, Ana Rodriguez Navas dezvaluie ca barfa este o practica urgenta, utilitara si profund politica - un mijloc de a pune in scena tensiunile narative si de a purta bataliile narative, care marcheaza politica si cultura Caraibelor.