Artificial color modern food and racial fictions Keyser, Catherine 1980- creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. nyu 2019 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (ix, 219 pages) This book examines how modern US writers used the changing geographies, regimens, and technologies of modern food to reimagine racial classification and to question its relationship to the mutable body. By challenging a cultural ideal of purity, this literature proposes that racial whiteness is perhaps the most artificial color of them all. "Purple fluid, carbon-charged": Jean Toomer's mutable materials -- Genius in the raw: the Schuyler family and the modern mulatta -- Eating like a local: Stein, Hemingway, and the stakes of terroir -- "A beaker full of the warm south": the Fitzgeralds and mediterranean infusions -- The monstropolous beast: animacy and industry in Zora Neale Hurston and Dorothy West. Catherine Keyser. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- Food in literature American fiction 20th century History and criticism Food habits in literature Race in literature White people Race identity In literature Ethnicity in literature Aliments dans la littérature Roman américain 20e siècle Histoire et critique Habitudes alimentaires dans la littérature Race dans la littérature Ethnicité dans la littérature LITERARY CRITICISM American General American fiction Ethnicity in literature Food habits in literature Food in literature Race in literature 1900-1999 fast PS374.F63 K49 2019 813/.5093559 Artificial color Keyser, Catherine, 1980- New York : Oxford University Press, [2018] (DLC) 2018012411 (DLC) 2018012411 0190673133 9780190673147 0190673141 9780190673130 9780190673154 019067315X 9780190673123 0190673125 9780197620182 0197620183 2018012898 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/8516 DLC 180315 20260319164723.2 in00005715627 eng