The Tropics Bite Back [[electronic resource] ] : Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature

• Autore: Loichot Valérie
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.89729
• Soggetto topico: Antilles, Lesser -- Literatures; Caribbean literature -- History and criticism; Cooking in literature; Caribbean literature - History and criticism; Food in literature; Languages & Literatures; Literature - General
• Persona (resp. second.): LoichotValérie
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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 parallel
• Titolo autorizzato: The Tropics Bite Back
• ISBN: 1-4529-3930-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786985103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II