Overview
- Focuses on recent, twenty-first century authors such as Condé, Chamoiseau, Pineau, Schwartz-Bart and Glissant, setting it apart from other studies in the field
- Offers discussion of French Caribbean literature through the lens of irony and hunger - a highly distinctive approach
- Gathers and builds on existing scholarship
Part of the book series: New Caribbean Studies (NCARS)
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“Nicole Simek offers an insightful study of the presence and multiple uses of irony in French Caribbean works that cross generic boundaries … . Simek’s study will be an excellent resource for students and scholars interested in Caribbean cultural productions.” (Véronique Maisier, H-France Review, Vol. 18 (90), April, 2018)
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Book Title: Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean
Book Subtitle: Literature, Theory, and Public Life
Authors: Nicole Simek
Series Title: New Caribbean Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55882-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55991-3Published: 15 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71935-8Published: 17 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55882-4Published: 14 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2691-3011
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 201
Topics: North American Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Literary History