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(In)digestion in Literature and Film - A Transcultural Approach

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(In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach is a collection of essays spanning diverse geographic areas such as Brazil, Eastern Europe, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States. Despite this geographic variance, they all question disordered eating practices represented in literary and filmic works. The collection ultimately redefines disorder, removing the pathology and stigma assigned to acts of non-normative eating. In so doing, the essays deem taboo practices of food consumption, rejection and avoidance as expressions of resistance and defiance in the face of restrictive sociocultural, political, and economic normativities. As a result, disorder no longer equates to "out of order", implying a sense of brokenness, but is instead envisioned as an act against the dominant of order of operations. The collection therefore shifts critical focus from the eater as the embodiment of disorder to the problematic norms that defines behaviors as such.

List of contents

Introduction
Section One: Theoretical and Formal Contours


  1. Suckling Pig or Potatoes? Class Politics and Food Symbolism in
  2. Eastern European Film
    Elena Popan

  3. Haptic for Gourmets: Cinema, Gastronomy, and Strategic Exoticism
  4. in Eat Drink Man Woman and Tortilla Soup
    Aida Roldán-García

  5. Pro-Ana and Mia Blogs and Care of the Self
  6. Jenny Platz
    Section Two: Disordered Eating Beyond the West

  7. White Pigs and Black Pigs, Wild Boar and Monkey Meat: Cannibalism and
  8. War Victimhood in Japanese Cinema
    Kenta McGrath

  9. "Such a Thin Slice of Watermelon!" Fat and Thin in Macabéa’s
  10. Malnourished World
    Benjamin Legg

  11. Multiplicities of Identities and Meanings Behind Devouring Characters in
  12. Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away
    Katsuya Izumi

  13. The Dangerous Vegan: Han Kang’s The Vegetarian and the Anti-Feminist
  14. Rhetoric of Disordered Eating
    Laura Wright
    Section Three: Disordered Eating in the West

  15. Dietary Perversions and Subversion of Nature in Huysmans’s
  16. Against Nature
    Romain Peter

  17. Eating the Dead: Transgressive Hungers and the Grotesque
  18. Body in Ulysses
    Wilson Taylor

  19. Hungry for Honey: Desire in Dacia Maraini’s Il treno per Helsinki
  20. Eilis Kierans

  21. "Identica a loro?": (In)digesting Food and Identity in Igiaba
  22. Scego’s "Salsicce"
    Francesca Calamita

  23. From Bartholomew Fair to Bridesmaids: Ben Jonson’s Fecopoetics
and Gendered American Pop Culture
Emily Gruber Keck

About the author

Niki Kiviat is a PhD candidate in Italian Studies at Columbia University, where her research interests include food studies; Italy’s food and material culture as manifest in films of the Economic Miracle; star studies; and the legacy of neorealist film, which was the subject of her Master’s thesis, also from Columbia. Her essay, "From Pizzaiola to Phenom: Viewing Sophia Loren Through Food," will be published in the edited volume Eve’s Sinful Bite: Foodscapes in Italian Women’s Writing, Culture, and Society (forthcoming, Bloomsbury).
Serena J. Rivera is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh where she teaches the language, literatures and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world. Her research interests concern the intersections of food, gender, race, and sexuality throughout Luso/Hispanophone cultural production. She has published on the topics of food metaphors in Mozambican and Cape Verdean literatures as well as the teaching of Portuguese language in the US. She has also translated Alberto Pena-Rodriguez’s News on the American Dream: A History of the Portuguese Press in the United States (forthcoming, Tagus Press). She is currently working on several article manuscripts that explore the use of food in (post)colonial nationalist rhetoric in Mozambique as well as the linkages between the abject and racial identity in late-nineteenth/early-twentieth century Brazilian literature. Her monograph project comparatively examines the intersections of masculinity, food, and nation in Brazilian, Cape Verdean and Mozambican literatures.

Summary

This is a collection of essays representative of diverse geographies, all of which underscore moments of disordered eating. The volume removes the pathology and stigma surrounding non-normative eating, highlighting these acts as expressions of resistance against the sociopolitical order of operations.

Product details

Authors Niki Rivera Kiviat, Serena J. (EDT)/ Kiviat Rivera, Serena J. Kiviat Rivera
Assisted by Niki Kiviat (Editor), Serena J Rivera (Editor), Serena J. Rivera (Editor)
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.05.2020
 
EAN 9780367443078
ISBN 978-0-367-44307-8
No. of pages 222
Series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science

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