Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean

Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean
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Total Pages : 207
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ISBN-10 : 9781137558824
ISBN-13 : 1137558822
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Book Synopsis Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean by : Nicole Simek

Download or read book Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean written by Nicole Simek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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