Cover -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction: Prolegomena to any Future History of Indigestion in America (Zbigniew Białas) -- Works Cited -- Part One: Food for Thought -- Tarte aux pommes, or, Delicacies Morally Good for You (Tomasz Basiuk) -- Example 1 -- Example 2 -- Example 3 -- Example 4 -- In conclusion -- Works Cited -- Voluntary Simplicity and Voluntary Poverty: Alternatives to Consumer Culture (Małgorzata Poks) -- Voluntary Simplicity -- Voluntary Poverty -- Christian Anarchism and Voluntary Poverty -- Depression America and Voluntary Poverty: The Catholic Worker Movement -- Catalysts for Change in the Civil Rights and the Cold War Era -- A New Society Within the Shell of the Old -- Works Cited -- The Battle over Squash and Beans: Food Justice Activism in a Polarized City (Aneta Dybska) -- Works Cited -- Part Two: Consuming Culture -- Consuming the Artist, Consuming the Image: Marina Abramović 2001 MOCA Gala Controversy (Justyna Wierzchowska) -- Works cited -- An Abject Guide to America: CSI Lab Autopsy and Stomach Contents as an (Ironic) Index of Interiorizing the Global and the Local (Zofia Kolbuszewska) -- Works Cited -- Unhappy Meals: Fast Food and the Crisis of the Underground in American Goth-themed Fiction and Graphic Novels (Agata Zarzycka) -- Introduction -- Goths and the Crisis of Commercialization -- Pete Hautman's Sweetblood (2003) -- Ross Campbell's Wet Moon (2004, ongoing) -- Aurelio Voltaire's Oh My Goth! (2002) and What Is Goth? (2004) -- Adam Rex's Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age Story (2010) -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Devouring Heroism: An Archetype Crisis in American Pop Culture (Oskar Zasada) -- Pirates, gunslingers, and spies, oh my -- Cops and robbers in the seventies -- The explosive eighties -- CGI's rise to power: the nineties and beyond -- Daring deeds and high scores.

Truth, justice, and special effects -- A heroic conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part Three: Crisis -- Performing Witness: The New Documentary Poetics (Elisabeth A. Frost) -- Works Cited -- Writing of Crisis and Crisis of Writing: Charles Reznikoff's Testimony (1934) (Jacek Partyka) -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- Works Cited -- The Pale Horseman: Crisis in the Fiction of Katherine Anne Porter (Joseph Kuhn) -- Works Cited -- Indigestible America and the Crisis of Multiculturalism in Aleksandar Hemon's Fiction (Marta Koval) -- Works Cited -- Humanity in Crisis: Man-made Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood (Anna Gilarek) -- Generic considerations -- Crisis -- Utopian solutions: ecotopianism vs. posthumanism -- A matter of ethics -- Works cited -- Food (and) War in Gravity's Rainbow (Dominika Bugno-Narecka) -- Works Cited -- Eating Itself to Death: The USA as Seen by McCarthy and Twain (Agnieszka Kaczmarek) -- Works Cited -- Part Four: Sustenance -- "Resistance Is the Opposite of Escape": Still Life as Sustenance in the Poems of Wallace Stevens and Gertrude Stein (Paulina Ambroży) -- This Object is Merely a State: Wallace Stevens -- Not Unordered in Not Resembling: Gertrude Stein -- A New Cup and Saucer -- Works Cited -- "Twas very hard to get down their filthy trash": Investigating Food and Crisis in Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative (1682) (Veronika Hofstätter) -- Works Cited -- Consuming Latinidad: Mexican Foodways in Maria Ripoll's Tortilla Soup (2001) (Małgorzata Martynuska) -- US Latinidad -- The protagonists of Tortilla Soup -- Mexican foodways and family -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part Five: Sustainability -- "Steam-driven cannibals … claim us flesh eaters,- wish we were": Black Sustainability through the Voice in African American Poetry on the Middle Passage (Jerzy Kamionowski) -- Works Cited.

Thoreau and the Indians, or a Crisis of the American Ideals of the Wild and Wilderness (Laura Suchostawska) -- Thoreau's concept of the wild and the wilderness -- A contemporary crisis of the ideals of living in the wild -- Works cited -- Marching through Wilderness: Relating to the Environment in an Italian American Perspective (Francesca de Lucia) -- The pastoral and the wilderness -- Filicudi: pastoral and anti-pastoral -- Conquering the suburbs -- Norumbega Park -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Between Taste and Interest: Reading Asian American Literature in the Age of Food Literacy (Dominika Ferens) -- Food and Ethnicity -- Interest and Shame -- Interest over Shame in The Book of Salt -- Shame over Interest in The Coffin Tree -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- About authors.