02779nam 2200541Ia 450 991081451490332120200520144314.01-4529-3930-6(CKB)2670000000368828(EBL)1204689(SSID)ssj0000916481(PQKBManifestationID)11562317(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000916481(PQKBWorkID)10875947(PQKB)11629379(MiAaPQ)EBC1204689(EXLCZ)99267000000036882820130411d2013 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe tropics bite back culinary coups in Caribbean literature /Valerie Loichot1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20131 online resource (284 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-7984-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-235) and index.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 parallelFood in literatureCooking in literatureCaribbean literatureHistory and criticismAntilles, LesserLiteraturesFood in literature.Cooking in literature.Caribbean literatureHistory and criticism.809.89729Loichot Valerie1968-1755531MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814514903321The tropics bite back4192351UNINA