The Tropics Bite BackThe ubiquitous presence of food and hunger in Caribbean writingfrom folktales, fiction, and poetry to political and historical treatisessignals the traumas that have marked the Caribbean from the Middle Passage to the present day. The Tropics Bite Back traces the evolution of the Caribbean response to the colonial gaze (or rather the colonial mouth) from the late nineteenth century to the twenty first. Unlike previous scholars, Valrie Loichot does not