Book contents
- Food and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Food and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Developments
- Chapter 7 Visceral Encounters
- Chapter 8 The Ethics of Eating Together
- Chapter 9 Eating Athwart and Queering Food Writing
- Chapter 10 Utilizing Food Studies with Children’s Literature and Its Scholarship
- Chapter 11 Avant-Garde Food Writing, Modernist Cuisine
- Chapter 12 Comic Books and the Culinary Logic of Late Capitalism
- Part III Applications
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Concepts (continued from page iii)
- References
Chapter 7 - Visceral Encounters
Critical Race Studies and Modern Food Literature
from Part II - Developments
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Book contents
- Food and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Food and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Developments
- Chapter 7 Visceral Encounters
- Chapter 8 The Ethics of Eating Together
- Chapter 9 Eating Athwart and Queering Food Writing
- Chapter 10 Utilizing Food Studies with Children’s Literature and Its Scholarship
- Chapter 11 Avant-Garde Food Writing, Modernist Cuisine
- Chapter 12 Comic Books and the Culinary Logic of Late Capitalism
- Part III Applications
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Concepts (continued from page iii)
- References
Summary
Diet and disgust attempt to establish boundaries between social groups, as anthropologist Mary Douglas famously proposed in Purity and Danger. Literature dramatizes the attempts to erect these boundaries and uses ingestive metaphors, dietary practices, and global exchanges to blur them. In twentieth-century U.S. literature, for example, food-related plots and recurring oral images express anxieties and ambivalences surrounding Jim Crow and its fetishization of light skin and supposedly pure white bodies. Beginning with structural anthropologists of the 1960s, moving through black studies of the 1980s, and into hemispheric American studies of the 1990s and 2000s, this essay explores the critical approaches that scholars have used to interrogate this dynamic. As bell hooks argues, eating can be an appropriative act, in which the ethnic other is absorbed by white consumers as an exotic spice, and yet at the same time, eating is an intimate encounter that demonstrates the permeability of the body.
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