Ebook: Cannibal Writes: Eating Others in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Women’s Writings

Postcolonial and diaspora studies scholars and critics have paid increasing attention to the use of metaphors of food, eating, digestion, and various affiliated actions such as loss of appetite, indigestion, and regurgitation. As such stylistic devices proliferated in the works of non-Western women writers, scholars connected metaphors of eating and consumption to colonial and imperial domination. In 'Cannibal Writes', Njeri Githire concentrates on the gendered and sexualised dimensions of these visceral metaphors of consumption in works by women writers from Haiti, Jamaica, Mauritius, and elsewhere.  Read more...