Description
Book Synopsis
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. Valérie Loichot employs cross-disciplinary methods to rethink notions of race and literary influence by providing a fresh perspective on forms of consumption both metaphorical and material.
Trade Review"
The Tropics Bite Back is a brilliant and highly original work of scholarship from one of the outstanding voices in contemporary Francophone studies. Valérie Loichot identifies cannibalism as the master trope of Antillean Literature, and goes on in this mature and insightful book to explore and analyze its various manifestations in a series of penetrating and novel readings. Exciting and profound, the book is both engaged and engaging." —Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University
Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction: The Cannibal and the Edible
1. From Gumbo to Masala: Édouard Glissant’s Creolization in the Circum-Caribbean
2. Not Just Hunger: Patrick Chamoiseau, Aimé Césaire, and Jean-Baptiste Labat
3. Kitchen Narrative: Food and Exile in Edwidge Danticat and Gisèle Pineau
4. Sexual Traps: Dany Laferrière and Gisèle Pineau
5. Literary Cannibals: Suzanne Césaire and Maryse Condé
Afterword: Can Hunger Speak?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
