03173nam 22006493u 450 991046307870332120210114033103.01-4529-3930-6(CKB)2670000000368828(EBL)1204689(SSID)ssj0000916481(PQKBManifestationID)11562317(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000916481(PQKBWorkID)10875947(PQKB)11629379(MiAaPQ)EBC1204689(EXLCZ)99267000000036882820130715d2013|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Tropics Bite Back[electronic resource] Culinary Coups in Caribbean LiteratureMinneapolis University of Minnesota Press20131 online resource (284 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-7984-3 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; INDEXThe 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 parallelAntilles, Lesser -- LiteraturesCaribbean literature -- History and criticismCooking in literatureCaribbean literatureHistory and criticismFood in literatureCooking in literatureLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCLiterature - GeneralHILCCElectronic books.Antilles, Lesser -- Literatures.Caribbean literature -- History and criticism.Cooking in literature.Caribbean literatureHistory and criticismFood in literatureCooking in literatureLanguages & LiteraturesLiterature - General809/.89729Loichot Valérie1046624Loichot ValâerieAU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910463078703321The Tropics Bite Back2473646UNINA