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Cannibal Writes:

Eating Others in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Women's Writing

ISBN-13: 9780252038785
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
By Njeri Githire
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Local release date: 14/12/2014
Format: Hardback 256 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Literature: history & criticism [DS]

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Google Preview: 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.; ''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 Conde and the Ethics of Interpretation; Google Preview content

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Cannibal Writes:

Eating Others in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Women's Writing