Fr. 140.00

Read My Plate - The Literature of Food

English · Hardback

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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.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One. The Hungry Yawp: Eating and Orality in Whitman and Ginsberg

Chapter Two. The Politics of Gluttony in Second-Generation Holocaust Literature

Chapter Three. Chukla Bukla: Cooking, Bengali-Indian-Anglo-American Writers, and the Merging of Cultures

Chapter Four. Feeding the Audience: Food, Feminism, and Performance Art

Chapter Five. The Last Black Man's Fried Chicken: Soul Food, Memory, and African American Culinary Writing

Chapter Six. Cooking Up a Storm: Recent Food Memoirs and the Angry Daughter

Chapter Seven. Eat and Run: Food Writing, Masculinity, and the "Male Midlife Crisis"

Chapter Eight. School Lunch: Bicultural Conflicts in Asian-American Women's Food Memoirs

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

About the Author


About the author

Deborah R. Geis is professor of English at DePauw University.

Summary

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.

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