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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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Cambridge critical concepts.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Books to taste and books to chew: writing on food and literature Gitanjali Shahani; Part I. Origins: 1. Commensality David B. Goldstein; 2. The haunted supermarket: food, flow, and the passions of literary nostalgia Andrew Warnes; 3. The vegetarian gothic Parama Roy; 4. Good taste, good food, and the gastronome Denise Gigante; 5. The art of the recipe: American food writing avant-la-lettre J. Michelle Coghlan; 6. Existential disgust and the food of the philosopher Robert Appelbaum; Part II. Developments: 7. Visceral encounters: critical race studies and modern food fiction Catherine Keyser; 8. The ethics of eating together: the case of French postcolonial literature Valerie Loichot; 9. Eating athwart and queering food writing Elspeth Probyn; 10. Utilizing food studies with children's literature and its scholarship Scott Pollard and Kara Keeling; 11. Avant-garde food writing, modernist cuisine Allison Carruth; 12. Comic books and the culinary logic of late capitalism Rohit Chopra; Part III. Applications: 13. Inebriation: the poetics of drink Sandra Gilbert; 14. Vampires, alterity, and strange eating Jennifer Park; 15. Toast and the familiar in children's literature Frances E. Dolan; 16. Food, humour and gender in Ishigaki Rin's poems Tomoko Aoyama; 17. Food, hunger, and Irish identity: self-starvation in Colum McCann's 'Hunger Strike' Miriam Mara; 18. Postcolonial hungers Deepika Bahri; Afterword Darra Goldstein.