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Employing theoretical analysis and insightful readings of English- and French-language texts, the author explores the prominence of alimentary-related tropes and their relationship to sexual consumption, writing, global geopolitics and economic dynamics, and migration.

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"A significant contribution to the field. Njeri Githire sensitively illuminates island literatures rarely considered in depth alongside one another."
--Nicole Simek, author of Eating Well, Reading Well: Maryse Condé and the Ethics of Interpretation

"The book will be compelling for humanists and analytical social scientists interested in the gendered transformation of postimperial cultures caught up in the vortex of globalization today."--Research in African Literatures

Cannibal Writes Eating Others in Caribbean and

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      Publisher: University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: 06/11/2014
      ISBN13: 9780252038785, 978-0252038785
      ISBN10: 0252038789
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      Gender studies, gender groups Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Employing theoretical analysis and insightful readings of English- and French-language texts, the author explores the prominence of alimentary-related tropes and their relationship to sexual consumption, writing, global geopolitics and economic dynamics, and migration.

      Trade Review
      "A significant contribution to the field. Njeri Githire sensitively illuminates island literatures rarely considered in depth alongside one another."
      --Nicole Simek, author of Eating Well, Reading Well: Maryse Condé and the Ethics of Interpretation

      "The book will be compelling for humanists and analytical social scientists interested in the gendered transformation of postimperial cultures caught up in the vortex of globalization today."--Research in African Literatures

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