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The tropics bite back

Loichot, Valerie, 1968-

The tropics bite back culinary coups in Caribbean literature / [electronic resource] : Valerie Loichot. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The cannibal and the edible -- From gumbo to masala: Édouard Glissant's creolization in the circum-Caribbean -- Not just hunger: Patrick Chamoiseau, Aime Cesaire, and Jean-Baptiste Labat -- Kitchen narrative: food and exile in Edwidge Danticat and Gisele Pineau -- Sexual traps: Dany Laferriere and Gisele Pineau -- Literary cannibals: Suzanne Cosaire and Maryse Conde -- Afterword: Can hunger speak?.

9781452939308 1452939306


Cooking in literature.
Food in literature.
Caribbean literature--History and criticism.


Antilles, Lesser--Literatures.


Electronic books.

PN849.C3 / L65 2013

809/.89729