Cannibal Writes : Eating Others in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Women's Writing /

"Within the field of postcolonial studies, colonial and imperial domination have frequently been connected to metaphors of eating and consumption. At the extreme, cannibalism works as a colonialist trope, and becomes an overarching framework for addressing issues of self, difference, and othern...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Githire, Njeri (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women and literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Literature.
Consumption (Economics) in literature.
Caribbean literature > Women authors.
Cannibalism in literature.
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Postcolonialisme dans la litterature.
Assimilation (Sociologie) dans la litterature.
Femmes et litterature > Caraïbes (Region)
Cannibalisme dans la litterature.
Women and literature > Caribbean Area.
Caribbean literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Indian Ocean Region.
Caribbean Area.
Indien, Region de l'ocean > Dans la litterature.
Indian Ocean Region > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cannibal Love: Ideologies of Power, Gender, and the Erotics of Eating
  • Immigration, Assimilation, and Conflict: A Dialectics of Cannibalism and Anthropemy
  • Dis(h)coursing Hunger: In the Throes of Voracious Capitalist Excesses
  • Edible Ecriture: Feuding Words, Fighting Foods.

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