Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food
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- Synopsis
- Global Appetites explores how industrial agriculture and countercultural food movements underpin U. S. conceptions of global power in the century since the First World War. Allison Carruth's study centers on what she terms the "literature of food" - a body of work that comprises literary realism, late modernism, and magical realism along with culinary writing, food memoir, and advertising. Through analysis of American texts ranging from Willa Cather's novel O Pioneers! (1913) to Novella Carpenter's nonfiction work Farm City (2009), Carruth argues that stories about how the United States cultivates, distributes, and consumes food imbue it with the power to transform social and ecological systems around the world. Lively and accessible, this interdisciplinary study will appeal to scholars of American literature and culture as well as those working in the fields of food studies, food policy, agriculture history, social justice, and the environmental humanities.
- Copyright:
- 2013
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781107327054
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781107032828
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 06/13/13
- Copyrighted By:
- Allison Carruth
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Business and Finance, Language Arts, Politics and Government
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