Book contents
- Food and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Food and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Developments
- Part III Applications
- Chapter 13 Inebriation
- Chapter 14 Vampires, Alterity, and Strange Eating
- Chapter 15 Toast and the Familiar in Children’s Literature
- Chapter 16 Food, Humor, and Gender in Ishigaki Rin’s Poetry
- Chapter 17 Food, Hunger, and Irish Identity
- Chapter 18 Postcolonial Hungers
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Concepts (continued from page iii)
- References
Chapter 18 - Postcolonial Hungers
from Part III - Applications
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Book contents
- Food and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Food and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Developments
- Part III Applications
- Chapter 13 Inebriation
- Chapter 14 Vampires, Alterity, and Strange Eating
- Chapter 15 Toast and the Familiar in Children’s Literature
- Chapter 16 Food, Humor, and Gender in Ishigaki Rin’s Poetry
- Chapter 17 Food, Hunger, and Irish Identity
- Chapter 18 Postcolonial Hungers
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Concepts (continued from page iii)
- References
Summary
This chapter explores the hunger narrative as a species of postcolonial literary and political enjambment, an intertextual phenomenon typified by different writers taking up a temporally discontinuous but thematically connected screed on postcolonial hungers.
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- Food and Literature , pp. 335 - 352Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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