TY - BOOK AU - Githire,Njeri TI - Cannibal writes: eating others in Caribbean and Indian Ocean women's writings SN - 9780252096747 AV - PN849.C3 G58 2014eb U1 - 809/.8928709729 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Chicago PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Caribbean literature KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - Cannibalism in literature KW - Women and literature KW - Caribbean Area KW - Assimilation (Sociology) in literature KW - Consumption (Economics) in literature KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - Cannibalisme dans la littérature KW - Femmes et littérature KW - Caraïbes (Région) KW - Assimilation (Sociologie) dans la littérature KW - Postcolonialisme dans la littérature KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Gender Studies KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - Caribbean & Latin American KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - Literary KW - fast KW - Literature KW - Indian Ocean Region KW - In literature KW - Indien, Région de l'océan KW - Dans la littérature KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - "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"--; "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"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=760239 ER -