The Tropics Bite Back : Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature /

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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 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.
Temas:
Food in literature.
Cooking in literature.
Caribbean literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Aliments dans la litterature.
Litterature antillaise > Histoire et critique.
Caribbean literature > History and criticism.
Lesser Antilles.
Antilles, Lesser > Literatures.
Literatures.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The cannibal and the edible
  • From gumbo to masala : Édouard Glissant's creolization in the circum-Caribbean
  • Not just hunger : Patrick Chamoiseau and Aime Cesaire
  • Kitchen narrative : food and exile in Edwidge Danticat and Gisele Pineau
  • Sexual traps : Dany Laferriere and Gisele Pineau
  • Literary cannibals : Suzanne Cosaire and Maryse Conde
  • Afterword : Can hunger speak?

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