Food, Culture and Caribbean Fiction: Understanding Food Politics through the Lens of Anglophone Caribbean Women Writers

The politics of food, including scarcity, cultural remembrance, and economic dependence are thoroughly entangled in the literature from the Caribbean islands. Authors employ culinary allusions not merely to prompt sensory description but to examine more profound social and historical conflict, ranging from plantation economies to postcolonial conflict. To explore the concept more realistically, examples from each of the chosen texts by two celebrated anglophone Caribbean female authors, Jamaica Kincaid and Edwidge Danticat, has been discussed at length here. This essay considers how food politics function as a necessary frame by which Caribbean writers describe power resistance and belonging in a region filled with rich histories of exploitation and resilience.