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001 2014015681
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100 1 $aGithire, Njeri.
245 10 $aCannibal Writes :$bEating Others in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Women's Writings /$cNjeri Githire.
264 1 $aUrbana :$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$c[2014]
300 $ax, 242 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Postcolonial and diaspora studies scholars and critics have paid increasing attention to the use of metaphors of food, eating, digestion, and various affiliated actions such as loss of appetite, indigestion, and regurgitation. As such stylistic devices proliferated in the works of non-Western women writers, scholars connected metaphors of eating and consumption to colonial and imperial domination. In Cannibal Writes, Njeri Githire concentrates on the gendered and sexualized dimensions of these visceral metaphors of consumption in works by women writers from Haiti, Jamaica, Mauritius, and elsewhere. Employing theoretical analysis and insightful readings of English- and French-language texts, she explores the prominence of alimentary-related tropes and their relationship to sexual consumption, writing, global geopolitics and economic dynamics, and migration. As she shows, the use of cannibalism in particular as a central motif opens up privileged modes for mediating historical and sociopolitical issues. Ambitiously comparative, Cannibal Writes ranges across the works of well-known and lesser known writers to tie together two geographic and cultural spaces that have much in common but are seldom studied in parallel"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Within the field of postcolonial studies, colonial and imperial domination have frequently been connected to metaphors of eating and consumption. At the extreme, cannibalism works as a colonialist trope, and becomes an overarching framework for addressing issues of self, difference, and otherness. In Cannibal Writes, Njeri Githire concentrates on the gendered and sexualized dimensions of these metaphors of consumption, specifically in works by Caribbean and Indian Ocean women writers in Haiti, Jamaica, and Guadeloupe. Through wide ranging theoretical exploration and insightful readings of texts in both English and French, this project focuses on the visceral appeal of alimentary metaphors and their relationship to sexual consumption, writing, political economy, and migration. Githire also explores some of the ways in which cannibalism has surfaced in some contemporary migration debates. The project is ambitiously comparative, including a wide range of well known and lesser known writers in both Caribbean and Indian Ocean contexts--geographic and cultural spaces that have much in common but which are rarely brought together in the same study"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 217-232) and index.
650 0 $aCaribbean literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aCannibalism in literature.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zCaribbean Area.
650 0 $aAssimilation (Sociology) in literature.
650 0 $aConsumption (Economics) in literature.
650 0 $aPostcolonialism in literature.
651 0 $aIndian Ocean Region$xIn literature.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American.$2bisacsh