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05089aam a2200565 i 4500 001 397B534AC17411E49647BAD4DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150303010228 008 140708t20142014ilu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014015681 020 $a 0252038789 020 $a 9780252038785 035 $a (OCoLC)877367843 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d UKMGB $d SPI $d OCLCQ $d YUS $d OCLCF $d VGM $d STF $d PUL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a i------ $a i------ 050 00 $a PN849.C3 $b G58 2014 082 00 $a 809/.8928709729 $2 23 084 $a LIT004100 $a LIT004100 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Githire, Njeri, $e author. 245 10 $a Cannibal writes : $b eating others in Caribbean and Indian Ocean women's writings / $c Njeri Githire. 264 1 $a Urbana ; $b University of Illinois Press, $c [2014] 300 $a x, 242 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Cannibal Love: Ideologies of Power, Gender, and the Erotics of Eating -- Immigration, Assimilation, and Conflict: A Dialectics of Cannibalism and Anthropemy -- Dis(h)coursing Hunger: In the Throes of Voracious Capitalist Excesses -- Edible Ecriture: Feuding Words, Fighting Foods. 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"-- Provided 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"-- Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Caribbean literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Cannibalism in literature. 650 0 $a Women and literature $z Caribbean Area. 650 0 $a Assimilation (Sociology) in literature. 650 0 $a Consumption (Economics) in literature. 650 0 $a Postcolonialism in literature. 651 0 $a Indian Ocean Region $x In literature. 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE $x Gender Studies. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM $x Caribbean & Latin American. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Assimilation (Sociology) in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00819100 650 7 $a Cannibalism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00845856 650 7 $a Caribbean literature $x Women authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00847474 650 7 $a Consumption (Economics) in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00876484 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 $a Postcolonialism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01073035 650 7 $a Women and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177093 651 7 $a Caribbean Area. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01244080 651 7 $a Indian Ocean Region. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01243380 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180106065405.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826103229.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=397B534AC17411E49647BAD4DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search