ABSTRACT

This article analyzes two works by Maryse Condé, Victoire: les saveurs et les mots (2006 Condé, M. 2006. Victoire, les saveurs et les mots: récit. Paris: Mercure de France. [Google Scholar]) and Mets et merveilles (2015 Condé, M. 2015. Mets et merveilles. Paris: Jean Claude Lattès. [Google Scholar]), spotlighting the figure of the female cook. It proposes a rereading of Victoire, the fictionalized biography of Condé’s grandmother, in light of the more recent autobiographical work Mets et merveilles in which Condé refers to her penchant for cooking as a crime of ‘lèse-majesté’ against her profession as a writer. Victoire stands out in Condé’s fiction for its emphasis on cooking and food. In Mets et merveilles Condé uses the theme of cooking as a tactic to encourage readers to return to Victoire in order to cement her legacy as an author, enabled by her established practice of rusing with her readers and supported by the recent growth of academic food studies as a scholarly discipline. Rereading Victoire in light of Mets et merveilles presents Maryse Condé as a writer-cook anchored in Guadeloupe, post-nomadic, proud of her cooking but still proudly intellectual, creating a space for Caribbean food writing and for her unique culinary mixtures.

摘要

本文分析了 Maryse Condé, Victoire 的两部作品：les saveurs et les mots ( 2006) 康德，M. 2006 年。Victoire, les saveurs et les mots: récit . 巴黎：法国美居。 [Google Scholar]）和Mets et merveilles（2015 年） Condé, M. 2015 年。Mets et merveilles。巴黎：让·克劳德·拉泰斯。 [Google Scholar] )，突出女厨师的身材。它建议重读康德祖母的虚构传记Victoire，根据最近的自传作品Mets et merveilles，其中康德将她对烹饪的嗜好称为对她作为作家的职业的“冒犯国王”的罪行。维克多在孔戴的小说中因其对烹饪和食物的重视而脱颖而出。在Mets et merveillesCondé 以烹饪为主题，鼓励读者重温 Victoire为了巩固她作为作家的遗产，她与读者交往的既定做法使她成为可能，并得到了最近作为学术学科的学术食品研究的支持。根据Mets et merveilles重新阅读Victoire将 Maryse Condé 呈现为一位驻扎在瓜德罗普岛的作家兼厨师，后游牧民族，为她的烹饪感到自豪，但仍然以知识为荣，为加勒比美食写作和她独特的烹饪混合物创造了空间。