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What is meat? Is it simply food to consume, or a metaphor for our own bodies? Can "bloody" vegan burgers, petri dish beef, live animals, or human milk be categorized as meat? In pursuing these questions, the contributors to Meat! trace the shifting boundaries of the meanings of meat across time, geography, and cultures. In studies of chicken, fish, milk, barbecue, fake meat, animal sacrifice, cannibalism, exotic meat, frozen meat, and other manifestations of meat, they highlight meat's entanglements with race, gender, sexuality, and disability. From the imperial politics embedded in labeling canned white tuna as "the chicken of the sea" to the relationship between beef bans, yoga, and bodily purity in Hindu nationalist politics, the contributors demonstrate how meat is an ideal vantage point from which to better understand transnational circuits of power and ideology as well as the histories of colonialism, ableism, and sexism.
Contributors. Neel Ahuja, Irina Aristarkhova, Sushmita Chatterjee, Mel Y. Chen, Kim Q. Hall, Jennifer A. Hamilton, Anita Mannur, Elspeth Probyn, Parama Roy, Banu Subramaniam, Angela Willey, Psyche Williams-Forson
List of contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. How to Think with Meat / Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam 1
1. When Fish Is Meat: Transnational Entanglements / Elspeth Probyn 17
2. Eating the Mother / Irina Aristarkhova 39
3. Reindeer and Woolly Mammoths: The Imperial Transit of Frozen Meat from the North American Arctic / Jennifer A. Hamilton 61
4. Beefing Yoga: Meat, Corporeality, and Politics / Sushmita Chatterjee 96
5. Eating after Chernobyl: Slow Violence and Reindeer Consumption in the Postnuclear Age / Anita Mannur 121
6. Romancing the Pig: A Queer Crip Tale from Barbeque to Xenotransplantation / Kim Q. Hall 139
7. On Being Meat: Three Parables on Sacrifice and Violence / Parama Roy 162
8. "I Hide in Plain Sight": Food and Black Masculinity in Vince Gilligan's
Breaking Bad / Psyche Williams-Forson 194
9. On Phooka: Beef, Milk, and the Framing of Animal Cruelty in Late Colonial Bengal / Neel Ahuja 213
10. Fake Meat: A Queer Commentary / Angela Willey 241
11. The Ethical Impurative: Elemental Frontiers of Technologized Meat / Banu Subramaniam 254
12. Fire and Ash / Mel Y. Chen 279
About the Contributors 293
Index 293
About the author
Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam, editors
Summary
The contributors to Meat! examine the transnational politics of various manifestations and understandings of meat as well as meat's entanglement with power, politics, culture, race, gender, sexuality.
