LEADER 02779nam 2200541Ia 450 001 9910814514903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4529-3930-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000368828 035 $a(EBL)1204689 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000916481 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11562317 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000916481 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10875947 035 $a(PQKB)11629379 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1204689 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000368828 100 $a20130411d2013 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe tropics bite back $eculinary coups in Caribbean literature /$fValerie Loichot 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (284 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-7984-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-235) and index. 327 $aTHE TROPICS BITE BACK: Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: The Cannibal and the Edible; CHAPTER 1: FROM GUMBO TO MASALA: E?douard Glissant's Creolization in the Circum-Caribbean; CHAPTER 2: NOT JUST HUNGER: Patrick Chamoiseau and Aime? Ce?saire; CHAPTER 3: KITCHEN NARRATIVE: Food and Exile in Edwidge Danticat and Gise?le Pineau; CHAPTER 4: SEXUAL TRAPS: Dany Laferrie?re and Gise?le Pineau; CHAPTER 5: LITERARY CANNIBALS: Suzanne Ce?saire and Maryse Conde?; AFTERWORD: Can Hunger Speak?; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX 330 $aThe 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, Vale?rie Loichot does not read food simply as a cultural trope. Instead, she is interested in literary cannibalism, which she interprets in parallel 606 $aFood in literature 606 $aCooking in literature 606 $aCaribbean literature$xHistory and criticism 607 $aAntilles, Lesser$vLiteratures 615 0$aFood in literature. 615 0$aCooking in literature. 615 0$aCaribbean literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.89729 700 $aLoichot$b Valerie$f1968-$01755531 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814514903321 996 $aThe tropics bite back$94192351 997 $aUNINA