Read my plate : the literature of food
by
Geis, Deborah R., 1960-.
Title
:
Read my plate : the literature of food
Author
:
Geis, Deborah R., 1960-.
ISBN
:
9781498574433
Personal Author
:
Geis, Deborah R., 1960-.
Physical Description
:
viii, 171 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents
:
The hungry yawp : eating and orality in Whitman and Ginsberg -- The politics of gluttony in second-generation Holocaust literature -- Chukla Bukla : cooking, Bengali-Indian-Anglo-American writers, and the merging of cultures -- Feeding the audience : food, feminism, and performance art -- The last Black man's fried chicken : soul food, memory, and African American culinary writing -- Cooking up a storm : recent food memoirs and the angry daughter -- Eat and run : food writing, masculinity, and the "male midlife crisis" -- School lunch : bicultural conflicts in Asian-American women's food memoirs.
Abstract
:
"Considering how recipes and food writing are read differently than other narratives, this book examines the concept of taste in food as cultural and emotional performance and shows how the dynamics of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and social class affect what literary characters and narrators eat"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Term
:
American literature -- History and criticism.
Amerikan edebiyatı -- Tarih ve kritik.
Gastronomy in literature.
Gastronomi, edebiyatta.
Food in literature.
Besin, edebiyatta.
American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
Amerikan edebiyatı -- Azınlık yazarları -- Tarih ve kritik.
| Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Shelf Location | Shelf Location | Holding Information |
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| PS 169.G38 G45 2019 | 0264785 | Central Library | Central Library | |