Valérie Loichot, THe Tropics Bite Back: Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota PressApril 201319 EurosISBN-13:978-0816679843TheTropicsBiteBack traces the evolution of the Caribbean response to the colonial gaze (or rather the colonial mouth) from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Valérie Loichot employs cross-disciplinary methods to rethink notions of race and literary influence by providing a fresh perspective on forms of consumption both metaphorical and material.TheTropicsBiteBackis a brilliant and highly original work of scholarship from one of the outstanding voices in contemporary Francophone studies. Valérie Loichot identifies cannibalism as the master trope of Antillean Literature, and goes on in this mature and insightful book to explore and analyze its various manifestations in a series of penetrating and novel readings. Exciting and profound, the book is both engaged and engaging.Nick Nesbitt, Princeton UniversityContentsIntroduction: The Cannibal and the Edible1. From Gumbo to Masala: Édouard Glissant’s Creolization in the Circum-Caribbean2. Not Just Hunger: Patrick Chamoiseau and Aimé Césaire3. Kitchen Narrative: Food and Exile in Edwidge Danticat and Gisèle Pineau4. Sexual Traps: Dany Laferrière and Gisèle Pineau5. Literary Cannibals: Suzanne Césaire and Maryse CondéAfterword: Can Hunger Speak?AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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