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Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean
Nicole Simek
其他書名
Literature, Theory, and Public Life
出版Springer, 2016-11-14
主題Literary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Modern / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Modern / 20th CenturyLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & TheorySocial Science / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN11375588229781137558824
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=whR_DQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.