New Caribbean Studies: Literature, Theory, and Public Life

Simek, Nicole

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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2016-11-15

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137559913

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-55882-4

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 201