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| Titre : | The Gendering of Irish and Caribbean Food / Land Crises in Children's Novels by Marita Conlon-McKenna and James Berry (2019) |
| Auteurs : | Kate HOULDEN, Auteur ; Sorcha GUNNE, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish University Review (Vol 49 n 1 Spring/Summer 2019) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 36-53 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | Marita Conlan-McKenna's Under the Hawthorne Tree (1990) and James Berry's Ajeemah and His Son (1991) are children's novels that address foundational national or regional trauma (dealing with transatlantic slavery and the Irish potato famine respectively). This article focuses on the role of food and consumption, arguing that these novels make clear the ongoing role of food scarcity and land control within the cyclical crises of capitalist expansion. Ajeemah and His Son reinforces the importance of land ownership in Jamaica as its protagonist falls in line with the values of the society he has been thrust into, while Under the Hawthorne Tree frames famine as a representative crisis of the world-system. |
| Pays de publication : | Grande-Bretagne (Royaume Uni) |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
