The pen and the pan : food, fiction and homegrown Caribbean feminism(s) /
The Pen and the Pan: Food, Fiction and Homegrown Caribbean Feminism(s) is a comparative study of food imagery in contemporary fiction by Guadeloupeans Maryse Conď and Gis̈le Pineau, Haitian Edwidge Danticat, and Trinidadians Lakshmi Persaud and Shani Mootoo. Robyn Cope's key contention is that...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Kingston :
University of the West Indies Press,
[2021].
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| Summary: | The Pen and the Pan: Food, Fiction and Homegrown Caribbean Feminism(s) is a comparative study of food imagery in contemporary fiction by Guadeloupeans Maryse Conď and Gis̈le Pineau, Haitian Edwidge Danticat, and Trinidadians Lakshmi Persaud and Shani Mootoo. Robyn Cope's key contention is that the past quarter century of Caribbean culinary fiction engenders the Caribbean freedom struggle in two senses of the word: first, by imbuing the history of that struggle with gender sensitivity and specificity and second, by dreaming up a new kind of creative, coalitional Caribbean freedom struggle. Cope reads food imagery in Caribbean women's writing not only for what it can teach us about the colonizer-colonized binary, but also in order to gain insight into power dynamics within the Caribbean itself, between generations, ethnic and racial groups, religious and political affiliations, social classes and sexual identities and most especially between women. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 260 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9766408602 9789766408602 |