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Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean: Literature, Theory, and Public Life
Nicole Simek
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Description for Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean: Literature, Theory, and Public Life
Hardback. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2AB; DSA; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 242 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Through a series of case studies spanning the bounds of literature, photography, essay, and manifesto, this book examines the ways in which literary texts do theoretical, ethical, and political work. Nicole Simek approaches the relationship between literature, theory, and public life through a specific site, the French Antillean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, and focuses on two mutually elucidating terms: hunger and irony. Reading these concepts together helps elucidate irony's creative potential and limits. If hunger gives irony purchase by anchoring it in particular historical and material conditions, irony also gives a literature and politics of hunger a means ... Read more
Through a series of case studies spanning the bounds of literature, photography, essay, and manifesto, this book examines the ways in which literary texts do theoretical, ethical, and political work. Nicole Simek approaches the relationship between literature, theory, and public life through a specific site, the French Antillean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, and focuses on two mutually elucidating terms: hunger and irony. Reading these concepts together helps elucidate irony's creative potential and limits. If hunger gives irony purchase by anchoring it in particular historical and material conditions, irony also gives a literature and politics of hunger a means ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
New Caribbean Studies
Number of Pages
201
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137559913
SKU
V9781137559913
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99-15
About Nicole Simek
Nicole Simek is Associate Professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies at Whitman College, USA. She is the author of Eating Well, Reading Well: Maryse Conde and the Ethics of Interpretation.
Reviews for Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean: Literature, Theory, and Public Life
Nicole Simek examines the connections between hunger and irony to think through texts from the Antillean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique and situate them within particular social, political, and ethical considerations. ... Hunger and Irony is an excellent resource for scholars whose teaching and research specialize in the fields of Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies, history and the cultures ... Read more