Racial Indigestion - Eating Bodies in the 19th Century

Informationen zum Autor Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\: *{behavior: url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name: "Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow: yes; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-padding-alt:0pt 5.4pt 0pt 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";} Kyla Wazana Tompkins is Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women's Studies at Pomona College. She is a former journalist and restaurant critic. Klappentext Explores the links between food! visual and literary culture in the nineteenth-century United States to reveal how eating produces political subjects by justifying the social discourses that create bodily meaning. This is the story of the consolidation of nationalist mythologies of whiteness via the erotic politics of consumption. Zusammenfassung Explores the links between food! visual and literary culture in the nineteenth-century United States to reveal how eating produces political subjects by justifying the social discourses that create bodily meaning. This is the story of the consolidation of nationalist mythologies of whiteness via the erotic politics of consumption.

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• Authors: Kyla Tompkins, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Kyla Wazana/ White Tompkins, Walt Whitman
• Assisted by: William White (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2012
• EAN: 9780814770023
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-7002-3
• No. of pages: 944
• Series: America and the Long 19th Century; America and the Long 19th Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous