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Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean - Literature, Theory, and Public Life (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016) Loot Price: R3,086
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Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean - Literature, Theory, and Public Life (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Nicole Simek

Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean - Literature, Theory, and Public Life (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

Nicole Simek

Series: New Caribbean Studies

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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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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: New Caribbean Studies
Release date: November 2016
First published: 2016
Authors: Nicole Simek
Dimensions: 210 x 148 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 201
Edition: 1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-55991-3
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
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LSN: 1-137-55991-8
Barcode: 9781137559913

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