Global appetites American power and the literature of food
Title:
Global appetites American power and the literature of food
Author:
Carruth, Allison.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
xiii, 246 p. : ill.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: the power of food; 2. Rural modernity: Willa Cather and the rise of agribusiness; 3. 'Luxury feeding' and war rations: food writing at midcentury; 4. Supermarkets and exotic foods: Toni Morrison's 'chocolate eater'; 5. Postindustrial pastoral: Ruth Ozeki and the new muckrakers; 6. Conclusion: food writing in the age of information; Bibliography; Notes; Index.
Abstract:
"Global Appetites explores how industrial agriculture and countercultural food movements underpin U.S. conceptions of global power in the century since the First World War. Allison Carruth's study centers on what she terms the "literature of food" - a body of work that comprises literary realism, late modernism, and magical realism along with culinary writing, food memoir, and advertising" -- Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Added Corporate Author:
Electronic Access:
Click to View