{"product_id":"pen-and-the-pan","title":"Pen and the Pan","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Pen and the Pan: Food, Fiction and\nHomegrown Caribbean Feminism(s)\u003c\/i\u003e is a comparative study of food\nimagery in contemporary fiction by Guadeloupeans Maryse Condé and Gisèle Pineau,\nHaitian Edwidge Danticat, and Trinidadians Lakshmi Persaud and Shani Mootoo. Robyn\nCope’s key contention is that the past quarter century of Caribbean culinary\nfiction engenders the Caribbean freedom struggle in two senses of the word:\nfirst, by imbuing the history of that struggle with gender sensitivity and\nspecificity; second, by dreaming up a new kind of creative, coalitional\nCaribbean freedom struggle. Cope reads food imagery in Caribbean women’s\nwriting not only for what it can teach us about the colonizer-colonized binary,\nbut also in order to gain insight into power dynamics within the Caribbean\nitself – between generations, ethnic and racial groups, religious and political\naffiliations, social classes and sexual identities, and most especially between\nwomen.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCope’s approach, part of the\nexciting new field of literary food studies, aims to recover stories that\ncannot be told without food. By reading these works with and against one another,\nCope honours the great geographic, linguistic, ethnic, racial, political and\nsocial diversity of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Caribbean women’s\nexperiences with oppression and resistance. At the same time, her reading\nteases out Caribbean women’s common longing for affirming coalition, symbolized\nby commensality, that liberates without collapsing difference. In \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pen and the Pan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, the shared\nmeal and the shared struggle go hand in hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of the West Indies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57259350262104,"sku":"9789766408602","price":43.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9789766408602_98c1453b-f33b-4dfb-a3f8-ee9f789371b0.jpg?v=1778804126","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/pen-and-the-pan","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}