In this Book
- Market Aesthetics: The Purchase of the Past in Caribbean Diasporic Fiction
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Virginia Press
- Series: New World Studies
summary
In Market Aesthetics, Elena Machado Sáez explores the popularity of Caribbean diasporic writing within an interdisciplinary, comparative, and pan-ethnic framework. She contests established readings of authors such as Junot Díaz, Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and Robert Antoni while showcasing the work of emerging writers such as David Chariandy, Marlon James, and Monique Roffey. By reading these writers as part of a transnational literary trend rather than within isolated national ethnic traditions, the author is able to show how this fiction adopts market aesthetics to engage the mixed blessings of multiculturalism and globalization via the themes of gender and sexuality.
New World StudiesModern Language Initiative
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-18
- Bibliography
- pp. 229-244
- Recent Books in the New World Studies Series
- pp. 251-252
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813937069
Related ISBN(s)
9780813937045
MARC Record
OCLC
901275249
Pages
264
Launched on MUSE
2015-02-19
Language
English
Open Access
No