LEADER 04764nam 22006975 450 001 9910151581803321 005 20201005200114.0 010 $a1-137-55882-2 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-55882-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000951872 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-55882-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4743112 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000951872 100 $a20161114d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHunger and Irony in the French Caribbean $b[electronic resource] $eLiterature, Theory, and Public Life /$fby Nicole Simek 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aNew York :$cPalgrave Macmillan US :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (IX, 201 p.) 225 1 $aNew Caribbean Studies,$x2691-3011 311 $a1-137-55991-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction: Living on the Edge -- 2. Theory or Over-Eating -- 3. Ironic Intent -- 4. In the Belly of the Beast: Irony, Opacity, Politics -- 5. Hunger Pangs: Irony, Tragedy, Constraint -- 6. Thirsty Ruins, Ironic Futures -- 7. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.-. 330 $a?A superb study? The guiding proposition ? that irony should be read as a vector that helps deploy figures of hunger ? works very well to identify and underscore a series of tensions specific to Francophone Caribbean literary history and culture? Insightful, wide-ranging, and exciting.? ? Lydie Moudileno, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA ?This book forwards a fascinating discussion of Francophone Caribbean writing through varying registers of hunger and irony. By thinking of these as both material determinants and interpretive levers, Simek provides not only new ways to read Martinican and Guadaloupean literature, but usefully recasts possibilities for postcolonial critique in general.? - Peter Hitchcock, Professor of English, The Graduate Center and Baruch College, City University of New York, USA Through a series of case studies spanning the bounds of literature, photography, essay, and manifesto, this book examines the ways in which literary texts do theoretical, ethical, and political work. Nicole Simek approaches the relationship between literature, theory, and public life through a specific site, the French Antillean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, and focuses on two mutually elucidating terms: hunger and irony. Reading these concepts together helps elucidate irony?s creative potential and limits. If hunger gives irony purchase by anchoring it in particular historical and material conditions, irony also gives a literature and politics of hunger a means for moving beyond a given situation, for pushing through the inertias of history and culture. 410 0$aNew Caribbean Studies,$x2691-3011 606 $aAmerica?Literatures 606 $aLiterature    606 $aLiterature, Modern?20th century 606 $aLiterature?Philosophy 606 $aCulture?Study and teaching 606 $aLiterature?History and criticism 606 $aNorth American Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/834000 606 $aPostcolonial/World Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/838000 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000 606 $aLiterary Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/812000 606 $aCultural Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411130 606 $aLiterary History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/813000 607 $aCaribbean Area$zFrench-speaking Areas$2fast 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast 615 0$aAmerica?Literatures. 615 0$aLiterature   . 615 0$aLiterature, Modern?20th century. 615 0$aLiterature?Philosophy. 615 0$aCulture?Study and teaching. 615 0$aLiterature?History and criticism. 615 14$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aPostcolonial/World Literature. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aLiterary Theory. 615 24$aCultural Theory. 615 24$aLiterary History. 676 $a809.7 700 $aSimek$b Nicole$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01062493 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910151581803321 996 $aHunger and Irony in the French Caribbean$92526100 997 $aUNINA