Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Culture
Author: Racial Indigestion
Author: Kyla Wazana TompkinsPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814770053
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Winner of the 2013 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association Winner of the 2013 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series The act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes the object being eaten. At the same time, eating performs a kind of vulnerability to the world, revealing a fundamental interdependence between the eater and that which exists outside her body. Racial Indigestion 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. Combing through a visually stunning and rare archive of children’s literature, architectural history, domestic manuals, dietetic tracts, novels and advertising, Racial Indigestion tells the story of the consolidation of nationalist mythologies of whiteness via the erotic politics of consumption. Less a history of commodities than a history of eating itself, the book seeks to understand how eating became a political act, linked to appetite, vice, virtue, race and class inequality and, finally, the queer pleasures and pitfalls of a burgeoning commodity culture. In so doing, Racial Indigestion sheds light on contemporary “foodie” culture’s vexed relationship to nativism, nationalism and race privilege. For more, visit the author's tumblr page: http://racialindigestion.tumblr.com
Reforming French Culture
Author: George HoffmannPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198808763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In this volume, George Hoffmann presents a study of Protestant satirical texts in sixteenth-century France and their role in French literature and history, examining how France became a culturally Protestant country while remaining confessionally Catholic.
Culture
Culture
Cultures of the Abdomen
Author: C. ForthPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403981388
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
We live in a world obsessed with abdomens. Whether we call it the belly, tummy, or stomach, we take this area of the body for granted as an object of our gaze, the subject of our obsessions, and the location of deeply felt desires. Diet, nutrition, and exercise all play critical roles in the development of our body images and thus our sense of self, not least because how we are made to feel about bodies (both our own and those of others) is often grounded in dietary and lifestyle choices. Cultures of the Abdomen traces the history of social, cultural, and medical ideas about the stomach and related organs since the seventeenth century, and demonstrates that a focused study of the abdomen is necessary for understanding the deep historical meanings that underscore our contemporary obsessions with hunger, diet, fat, indigestion, and excretion. It locates that history from dietary ideals in early modern Europe to the vexing issue of American fat in the twenty-first century, surveying along the way developments in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia.
Exemplary Ambivalence in Late Nineteenth-century Spanish America
Author: Elisabeth L. AustinPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1611484642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Exemplary Ambivalence fills a critical gap within studies of 19th-century Spanish America as it explores the inconsistencies of exemplary texts and emphasizes the forms, sources, and implications of creole ideological and narrative multiplicity. This interdisciplinary study examines creole writing subjectivities and ethnic fictions within the construction of national, aesthetic, and gendered cultural identities, highlighting the dynamic relationship between exemplary discourse and readers as active interpretive agents.
Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture
Author: Keith Louis WalkerPublisher: New Americanists
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
An examination of the regional and national commonalites and differences of francophone literary culture.
Gleanings in Bee Culture
Author: The New Method in Health Culture
Author: William E. ForestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine, Popular
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description