03908nam 22006975 450 991048081490332120210722011717.00-8147-3837-010.18574/9780814738375(CKB)2670000000236944(EBL)865513(OCoLC)806343240(SSID)ssj0000713605(PQKBManifestationID)11420935(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000713605(PQKBWorkID)10658070(PQKB)10170917(MiAaPQ)EBC865513(MdBmJHUP)muse19209(DE-B1597)548490(DE-B1597)9780814738375(OCoLC)809766770(EXLCZ)99267000000023694420200608h20122012 fg 0engurnn#---|un|utxtccrRacial Indigestion Eating Bodies in the 19th Century /Kyla Wazana TompkinsNew York, NY :New York University Press,[2012]©20121 online resource (323 p.)America and the Long 19th Century ;5Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-7003-7 0-8147-7002-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1 Kitchen Insurrections --2 “She Made the Table a Snare to Them” --3 “Everything ’Cept Eat Us” --4 A Wholesome Girl --5 “What’s De Use Talking ’Bout Dem ’Mendments?” --Conclusion --Notes --Bibliography --Index --About the AuthorThe 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.America and the long 19th century.Food in literatureHuman bodySocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryCookingSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryDietSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryFood habitsSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesRace relationsHistory19th centuryElectronic books.Food in literature.Human bodySocial aspectsHistoryCookingSocial aspectsHistoryDietSocial aspectsHistoryFood habitsSocial aspectsHistory394.1/20973Tompkins Kyla Wazanaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut783224DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910480814903321Racial indigestion1739816UNINA