{"product_id":"the-pen-and-the-pan-robyn-cope-9789766408602","title":"The Pen and the Pan: Food, Fiction and Homegrown Caribbean Feminism(s)","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Pen and the Pan: Food, Fiction and\u003cbr\u003eHomegrown Caribbean Feminism(s)\u003c\/i\u003e is a comparative study of food\u003cbr\u003eimagery in contemporary fiction by Guadeloupeans Maryse Condé and Gisèle Pineau, \u003cbr\u003eHaitian Edwidge Danticat, and Trinidadians Lakshmi Persaud and Shani Mootoo. Robyn\u003cbr\u003eCope's key contention is that the past quarter century of Caribbean culinary\u003cbr\u003efiction engenders the Caribbean freedom struggle in two senses of the word: \u003cbr\u003efirst, by imbuing the history of that struggle with gender sensitivity and\u003cbr\u003especificity; second, by dreaming up a new kind of creative, coalitional\u003cbr\u003eCaribbean freedom struggle. Cope reads food imagery in Caribbean women's\u003cbr\u003ewriting not only for what it can teach us about the colonizer-colonized binary, \u003cbr\u003ebut also in order to gain insight into power dynamics within the Caribbean\u003cbr\u003eitself - between generations, ethnic and racial groups, religious and political\u003cbr\u003eaffiliations, social classes and sexual identities, and most especially between\u003cbr\u003ewomen.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCope's approach, part of the\u003cbr\u003eexciting new field of literary food studies, aims to recover stories that\u003cbr\u003ecannot be told without food. By reading these works with and against one another, \u003cbr\u003eCope honours the great geographic, linguistic, ethnic, racial, political and\u003cbr\u003esocial diversity of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Caribbean women's\u003cbr\u003eexperiences with oppression and resistance. At the same time, her reading\u003cbr\u003eteases out Caribbean women's common longing for affirming coalition, symbolized\u003cbr\u003eby commensality, that liberates without collapsing difference. In \u003ci\u003eThe Pen and the Pan\u003c\/i\u003e, the shared\u003cbr\u003emeal and the shared struggle go hand in hand.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robyn Cope\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9766408602\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789766408602\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of the West Indies Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d","brand":"Robyn Cope","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981817577727,"sku":"9789766408602","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4082949a-ee9c-44b2-9f5f-94bbcb5be077.jpg?v=1683257688","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-pen-and-the-pan-robyn-cope-9789766408602","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}