Book contents
- Food and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Food and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Developments
- Chapter 7 Visceral Encounters
- Chapter 8 The Ethics of Eating Together
- Chapter 9 Eating Athwart and Queering Food Writing
- Chapter 10 Utilizing Food Studies with Children’s Literature and Its Scholarship
- Chapter 11 Avant-Garde Food Writing, Modernist Cuisine
- Chapter 12 Comic Books and the Culinary Logic of Late Capitalism
- Part III Applications
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Concepts (continued from page iii)
- References
Chapter 8 - The Ethics of Eating Together
The Case of French Postcolonial Literature
from Part II - Developments
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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
- Chapter 7 Visceral Encounters
- Chapter 8 The Ethics of Eating Together
- Chapter 9 Eating Athwart and Queering Food Writing
- Chapter 10 Utilizing Food Studies with Children’s Literature and Its Scholarship
- Chapter 11 Avant-Garde Food Writing, Modernist Cuisine
- Chapter 12 Comic Books and the Culinary Logic of Late Capitalism
- Part III Applications
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Concepts (continued from page iii)
- References
Summary
This essay analyzes the ethics of eating together in the literature of a variety of writers born in France’s colonies or postcolony (Aimé Césaire, Suzanne Césaire, Maryse Condé, Jacques Derrida, Michel Houellebecq, Simone Schwarz-Bart). It ponders the fate of commensality when human communities are disrupted by slavery, colonialism, hyper-nationalism, or contemporary identity crises in Fortress-Europe. Condé, Derrida, Schwarz Bart, S. Césaire develop an ethics and practice of eating well together as an antidote to colonial or nationalist politics of discrimination. By contrast, François in Houellebecq’s novel Soumission (2015), who hopelessly eats alone, signals the fragility of a France desperately clinging to an illusory purity.
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