Racial Indigestion : Eating Bodies in the 19th Century
- Author/Creator:
- Tompkins, Kyla Wazana, author
- Publication/Creation:
- New York, NY : New York University Press, [2012]
- Resource Type:
- Book
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- Racial Indigestion : Eating Bodies in the 19th Century / Kyla Wazana Tompkins
- Series Titles:
- America and the Long 19th Century ; 5
America and the long 19th century.
- Related/Included Titles:
- 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 Author
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Alcott, Louisa May,1832-1888--Criticism and interpretation
Graham, Sylvester,1794-1851
Food in literature
Human body--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century
Cooking--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century
Diet--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century
Food habits--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century
United States--Race relations--History--19th century
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- 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 Author
- Summary:
- 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.
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (323 p.)
- General Note:
- Description based upon print version of record.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9937321531702486
- ISBN:
- 0-8147-3837-0
- OCLC Number:
- 806343240
809766770 - Other Identifiers:
- doi: 10.18574/9780814738375
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