عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
T521
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Between us there is bread and salt: Food in the novels of Edwidge Danticat, Gisele Pineau, and Lakshmi Persaud
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
;supervisor: Munro, Martin
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
The Florida State University: United States -- Florida
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
: 2013
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
184 Pages
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
In this dissertation, I will identify and compare the various ways in which food imagery is used in both descriptive and proscriptive ways in the fiction of three Caribbean diasporic women writers in the 1990s--Edwidge Danticat, of Haiti, Gisèle Pineau, of Guadeloupe, and Lakshmi Persaud, of Trinidad. I will examine how these authors treat several aspects of Caribbean identity in the age of migration and exile by writing about food. Those aspects include but are not limited to: evolving gender roles, mother-daughter relationships, and family structures; social injustice both within the Caribbean and also throughout the Caribbean diaspora; Caribbean thinking about the medicinal qualities of food and alternatives to North American or European relationships to food; overturning colonial dichotomies by valorizing the cuisine of oppressed peoples and forming alliances between minority groups through sharing food; and the connections between writing and cooking for Caribbean women. This dissertation will demonstrate that in Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), Krik? Krak! (1995), and The Farming of Bones (1998) by Edwidge Danticat, in Un Papillon dans la Cité (1992) and L'Exil Selon Julia (1996) by Gisèle Pineau, and in Butterfly in the Wind (1990) and Sastra (1993) by Lakshmi Persaud, the authors use food as a sort of parallel code, sometimes reinforcing and sometimes contradicting the ostensible narrative as it might be understood without this additional input. Reading that code yields a richer and more complete understanding of these fictional works and, by extension, of the cultural phenomena that make up their main themes.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Caribbean literature
Womens studies
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Trinidad and Tobago
Subject Term
literature and linguistics
Subject Term
Social sciences
Subject Term
Globalization
Subject Term
Postcolonial
Subject Term
Language
Subject Term
Danticat
Subject Term
Edwidge
Subject Term
Guadeloupe
Subject Term
Motherhood
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Cope, Robyn
PERSONAL NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Munro, Martin, supervisor
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TL521.pdf
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