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Global appetites : American power and the literature of food / / Allison Carruth, University of California, Los Angeles [[electronic resource]]



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Autore: Carruth Allison Visualizza persona
Titolo: Global appetites : American power and the literature of food / / Allison Carruth, University of California, Los Angeles [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 810.9/3564
Soggetto topico: Agriculture in literature
Food in literature
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
American literature - Women authors - History and criticism
Food writing - United States
Agricultural industries - United States
Globalization
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Jan 2016).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: the power of food; 2. Rural modernity: Willa Cather and the rise of agribusiness; 3. 'Luxury feeding' and war rations: food writing at midcentury; 4. Supermarkets and exotic foods: Toni Morrison's 'chocolate eater'; 5. Postindustrial pastoral: Ruth Ozeki and the new muckrakers; 6. Conclusion: food writing in the age of information; Bibliography; Notes; Index.
Sommario/riassunto: Global Appetites explores how industrial agriculture and countercultural food movements underpin US 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 non-fiction 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Global appetites  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-107-32705-9
1-107-23811-0
1-316-61330-5
1-107-33515-9
1-139-50740-0
1-107-33349-0
1-107-33270-2
1-107-33681-3
1-107-33598-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910452476003321
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