LEADER 05084nam 2200733 450 001 9910823033103321 005 20230803200141.0 010 $a0-252-09674-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000587141 035 $a(OCoLC)900889135 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10998996 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001403448 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12535960 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001403448 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11367961 035 $a(PQKB)11543097 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3414417 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001639681 035 $a(OCoLC)898477113 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35762 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3414417 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10998996 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681064 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000587141 100 $a20150109h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCannibal writes $eeating others in Caribbean and Indian Ocean women's writing /$fNjeri Githire 210 1$aUrbana, Illinois :$cUniversity of Illinois Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-252-03878-9 311 $a1-322-49782-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCannibal 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. 330 $a"Within the field of postcolonial studies, colonial and imperial domination have frequently been connected to metaphors of eating and consumption. At the extreme, cannibalism works as a colonialist trope, and becomes an overarching framework for addressing issues of self, difference, and otherness. In Cannibal Writes, Njeri Githire concentrates on the gendered and sexualized dimensions of these metaphors of consumption, specifically in works by Caribbean and Indian Ocean women writers in Haiti, Jamaica, and Guadeloupe. Through wide ranging theoretical exploration and insightful readings of texts in both English and French, this project focuses on the visceral appeal of alimentary metaphors and their relationship to sexual consumption, writing, political economy, and migration. Githire also explores some of the ways in which cannibalism has surfaced in some contemporary migration debates. The project is ambitiously comparative, including a wide range of well known and lesser known writers in both Caribbean and Indian Ocean contexts--geographic and cultural spaces that have much in common but which are rarely brought together in the same study"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"Postcolonial and diaspora studies scholars and critics have paid increasing attention to the use of metaphors of food, eating, digestion, and various affiliated actions such as loss of appetite, indigestion, and regurgitation. As such stylistic devices proliferated in the works of non-Western women writers, scholars connected metaphors of eating and consumption to colonial and imperial domination. In Cannibal Writes, Njeri Githire concentrates on the gendered and sexualized dimensions of these visceral metaphors of consumption in works by women writers from Haiti, Jamaica, Mauritius, and elsewhere. Employing theoretical analysis and insightful readings of English- and French-language texts, she explores the prominence of alimentary-related tropes and their relationship to sexual consumption, writing, global geopolitics and economic dynamics, and migration. As she shows, the use of cannibalism in particular as a central motif opens up privileged modes for mediating historical and sociopolitical issues. Ambitiously comparative, Cannibal Writes ranges across the works of well-known and lesser known writers to tie together two geographic and cultural spaces that have much in common but are seldom studied in parallel"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aCaribbean literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCannibalism in literature 606 $aWomen and literature$zCaribbean Area 606 $aAssimilation (Sociology) in literature 606 $aConsumption (Economics) in literature 606 $aPostcolonialism in literature 607 $aIndian Ocean Region$xIn literature 615 0$aCaribbean literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCannibalism in literature. 615 0$aWomen and literature 615 0$aAssimilation (Sociology) in literature. 615 0$aConsumption (Economics) in literature. 615 0$aPostcolonialism in literature. 676 $a809/.8928709729 686 $aSOC032000$aLIT004100$2bisacsh 700 $aGithire$b Njeri$01660082 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823033103321 996 $aCannibal writes$94015079 997 $aUNINA