Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
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 present day. The Tropics Bite...
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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 present day. The Tropics Bite Back 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, Valérie Loichot does not read food simply as a cultural trope. Instead, she is interested in literary cannibalism, which she interprets in parallel
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-235) and index
Recurso electronico; Disponible via World Wide Web
THE TROPICS BITE BACK: Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: The Cannibal and the Edible; CHAPTER 1: FROM GUMBO TO MASALA: Édouard Glissant's Creolization in the Circum-Caribbean; CHAPTER 2: NOT JUST HUNGER: Patrick Chamoiseau and Aimé Césaire; CHAPTER 3: KITCHEN NARRATIVE: Food and Exile in Edwidge Danticat and Gisèle Pineau; CHAPTER 4: SEXUAL TRAPS: Dany Laferrière and Gisèle Pineau; CHAPTER 5: LITERARY CANNIBALS: Suzanne Césaire and Maryse Condé; AFTERWORD: Can Hunger Speak?; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
