A taste of power : food and American identities / / Katharina Vester

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910798070903321
• Autore: Vester Katharina
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-520-96060-2
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Collana: California studies in food and culture ; ; 59
• Disciplina: 394.1/20973
• Soggetti: Food - Social aspects - United States; Cooking, American - History; Food habits - United States - History; Cookbooks - Social aspects - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "For all grades of life?" the making of a republican cuisine -- In search of an American cuisine: national identity and food -- "All my bones were made of Indian corn" : maize, revolution, and democracy -- An American painter's palate : Raphaelle Peale's food still lifes -- Domestic virtue and citizenship in Lydia Maria Child -- "Bread of our mothers" : Sylvester Graham and the health of the nation -- Cooking contest : regional, transnational, and class-based cuisines in the Antebellum U.S -- A republican cuisine -- "Wolf in chef's clothing" : manly cooking and negotiations of ideal masculinity -- Why the way to the heart is through the stomach -- "Men, meet the kitchen" : inventing manly cooking -- Flesh, blood, and Hemingway : campfire cooking and rugged masculinities -- Hardboiled cooking, femmes fatales, and American Noir -- Silver Spoons in their hands : the rise of the gourmet -- Playboys in the kitchen: manly cooking in the 1950s and 60s -- "Will cook for sex" : recipes for manly cooking -- "The difference is spreading" : recipes for lesbian living -- "Serving heteronormativity/queering the menu" -- Labor of love : gender-normativity and contradiction in 19th century cookbooks -- Tender Mutton: Gertrude Stein's household advice -- "La cuisine c'est la femme" : the Alice B. Toklas cook book -- What lesbians eat : identity, ; food and same-sex desire -- How to cook with lesbians -- Digestif : power, resistance and food.
• Sommario/riassunto: "A Taste of Power is an investigation of the crucial role culinary texts and practices played in the making of cultural identities and social hierarchies since the founding of the United States. Nutritional advice and representations of food and eating, including cookbooks, literature, magazines, newspapers, still life paintings, television shows, films, and the internet, have helped throughout American history to circulate normative claims about citizenship, gender performance, sexuality, class privilege, race, and ethnicity, while promising an increase in cultural capital and social mobility to those who comply with the prescribed norms. The study examines culinary writing and practices as forces for the production of social order and, at the same time, as points of cultural resistance against hegemonic norms, especially in shaping dominant ideas of nationalism, gender, and sexuality, suggesting that eating right is a gateway to becoming an American, a good citizen, an ideal man, or a perfect mother. Cookbooks, as a low-prestige literary form, became the largely unheralded vehicles for women to participate in nation-building before they had access to the vote or public office, for middle-class authors to assert their class privileges, for men to claim superiority over women even in the kitchen, and for Lesbian authors to reinscribe themselves into the heteronormative economy of culinary culture. The book engages in close reading of a wide variety of sources and genres to uncover the intersections of food, politics, and privilege in American culture"--Provided by publisher.

Holocaust images and picturing catastrophe : the cultural politics of seeing / / Angi Buettner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910154997603321
• Autore: Buettner Angi
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-351-93052-4; 1-138-26830-5; 1-315-25326-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations, photographs
• Disciplina: 704.9/499405318
• Soggetti: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art; Genocide in art; Political violence in art; Art - Moral and ethical aspects; Genocide - Psychological aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 2011 by Ashgate Publihsing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction : aftermaths and the afterlife of images -- 2. Aftermaths and the Holocaust -- 3. Holocaust into Holocausts -- 4. Never again : Rwanda, genocide and the Holocaust -- 5. Leaving history behind : memorials and the dead of genocide -- 6. Leaving victims behind : animal rights, environmental catastrophe, and the limits of the Holocaust -- 7. The Holocaust as master theory -- 8. The act of looking : suffering, the search for explanations, and the image as accusation.
• Sommario/riassunto: Holocaust Images and Picturing Catastrophe explores the phenomenon of Holocaust transfer, analysing the widespread practice of using the Holocaust and its imagery for the representation and recording of other historical events in various media sites. It investigates the use of Holocaust imagery in political and legal discourses, in critical thinking and philosophy, as well as in popular culture, to provide a fresh theorisation of the manner in which the Holocaust comes loose from its historical context and is applied to events and campaigns in the contemporary public sphere. Richly illustrated with concrete examples, ; including prominent, international animal rights activism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the genocide in Rwanda, this book traces the visual rhetoric of Holocaust imagery and its application to events other than the genocide of Jewish people With its discussion of the wide range of issues arising with this form of 'Holocaust-transfer', the generalization of the Holocaust as a metaphor in representations of catastrophe, as well as in other cultural locations, Holocaust Images and Picturing Catastrophe will appeal to those working in the fields of holocaust studies, cultural and visual culture studies, sociology, and media studies.