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The Tropics Bite Back : Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature /

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 respon...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Loichot, Valerie, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (304 pages).
ISBN:9781452939308