Food and literature /
This volume examines food as subject, form, landscape, polemic and aesthetic statement in literature. With essays analyzing food and race, queer food, intoxicated poets, avantgarde food writing, vegetarianism, the recipe, the supermarket, food comics and vampiric eating, this collection brings toget...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Cambridge critical concepts.
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| Summary: | This volume examines food as subject, form, landscape, polemic and aesthetic statement in literature. With essays analyzing food and race, queer food, intoxicated poets, avantgarde food writing, vegetarianism, the recipe, the supermarket, food comics and vampiric eating, this collection brings together fascinating work from leading scholars in the field. It is the first volume to offer an overview of literary food studies and reflect on its origins, developments and applications. Taking up maxims such as 'we are what we eat,' it traces the origins of literary food studies and examines key questions in cultural texts from different global literary traditions. It charts the trajectories of the field in relation to work in critical race studies, postcolonial studies0 and children's literature, positing an omnivorous method for the field at large. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 371 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108426329 1108426328 |