Hunger and Irony inthe French Caribbean; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction: Living on the Edge; Notes; 2 Theory or Over-Eating; Critical Appetites; Theories of Suspicion, Suspicions of Theory; Hunger for Blood; Eating the Dead or Irony Reincarnated; Notes; 3 Ironic Intent; Urgency and Agency; Writing Wounded; Relations to Come; Notes; 4 In the Belly of the Beast: Irony, Opacity, Politics; Hunger's Shadows; In the Jaws of Necessity; Irony, Dialectics, Dialogue; Rewriting Utopia; Notes; 5 Hunger Pangs: Irony, Tragedy, Constraint; Incarcerating Islands; Ironic Escapes; Second Acts; Notes.

6 Thirsty Ruins, Ironic FuturesMelancholic Cravings; Faith and Fiction; Ironic Archivists; Living Irony in the Post-Colony; Notes; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index.