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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Loichot, Valérie, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Caribbean literature > History and criticism.
Food in literature.
Cooking in literature.
Littérature antillaise > Histoire et critique.
Aliments dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Caribbean literature.
Antilles, Lesser > Literatures.
Lesser Antilles.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literatures.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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?

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