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- Title
Between Breadfruit and Masala: Food Politics in Glissant's Martinique.
- Authors
Loichot, Valérie
- Abstract
This article explores the concretization of highly theoretical concepts, such as relation and Creolization, through the culinary metaphors used by Édouard Glissant to define Martinican identity. His choice of an East-Indian spice mix, masala, as an example of the striving, newly forged Martinican identity, and his concept of "breadfruit thinking" are highlighted. A shift on the level of the function of food that appears between the earlier and the later texts is highlighted.
- Subjects
MARTINIQUE; FOOD in literature; GLISSANT, Edouard, 1928-2011; METAPHOR in literature; IDENTITY (Psychology) in literature; CULTURAL identity
- Publication
Callaloo, 2007, Vol 30, Issue 1, p124
- ISSN
0161-2492
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cal.2007.0151