Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean

Literature, Theory, and Public Life
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-55991-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 201 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3796 g

Reihe: New Caribbean Studies

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 for moving beyond a given situation, for pushing through the inertias of history and culture.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simek, Nicole

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Living on the Edge.- 2. Theory or Over-Eating.- 3. Ironic Intent.- 4. In the Belly of the Beast: Irony, Opacity, Politics.- 5. Hunger Pangs: Irony, Tragedy, Constraint.- 6. Thirsty Ruins, Ironic Futures.- 7. Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index.-

Über Autor(innen)

Nicole Simek is Associate Professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies at Whitman College, USA. She is the author of Eating Well, Reading Well: Maryse Condé and the Ethics of Interpretation.