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Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean: Literature, Theory, and Public Life (New Caribbean Studies) by Nicole Simek (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean: Literature, Theory, and Public Life (New Caribbean Studies) about?

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. Erscheinungsdatum: 15.11.2016

Who reads Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean: Literature, Theory, and Public Life (New Caribbean Studies)?

Author

Nicole Simek (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781137559913

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Science