| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvii, 243 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : The cannibal and the edible -- From gumbo to masala : Édouard Glissant's creolization in the circum-Caribbean -- Not just hunger : Patrick Chamoiseau and Aimé Césaire -- Kitchen narrative : food and exile in Edwidge Danticat and Gisèle Pineau -- Sexual traps : Dany Laferrière and Gisèle Pineau -- Literary cannibals : Suzanne Cøsaire and Maryse Condé -- Afterword : Can hunger speak? |
| Summary |
The ubiquitous presence of food and hunger in Caribbean writing - from folktales, fiction, and poetry to political and historical treatises - signals the traumas that have marked the Caribbean from the Middle Passage to the twenty-first century. This book traces the evolution of the Caribbean response to the colonial gaze (or, rather, the colonial mouth) from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Unlike previous scholars, the author does not read food simply as a cultural trope. Instead, she is interested in literary cannibalism, which she interprets in parallel with theories of relation and creolization |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Caribbean literature -- History and criticism
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Food in literature.
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Cooking in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
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Caribbean literature
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Cooking in literature
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Food in literature
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| SUBJECT |
Antilles, Lesser -- Literatures.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2011002781
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| Subject |
Lesser Antilles
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literatures
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781452939308 |
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1452939306 |
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9781452948171 |
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1452948178 |
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