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Eating beside ourselves : thresholds of foods and bodies / Heather Paxson, editor

Paxson, Heather [Herausgeber]

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023

New York, NY : JSTOR

1 Online-Ressource

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe: Eating beside ourselves. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2023. - ISBN 978-1-4780-1678-6

978-1-4780-9311-4 ; 1-4780-9311-0 ; 978-1-4780-2406-4 ; 1-4780-2406-2 ; 978-1-4780-1678-6 ; 978-1-4780-1943-5 ; 1-4780-1678-7 ; 1-4780-1943-3

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"Eating Beside Ourselves expands the work of food studies by approaching eating and feeding as sites of transformation across a diversity of bodies and selves. In turning organic substance into food, acts of eating create webs of relations, interconnected and organized by relative conditions of edibility, through which eaters may in turn become eaten. Focusing on such relations, this volume explores how eating and feeding mediate thresholds between different conditions or states of being (e.g., living/dying; edible/inedible); between organisms of different species; and between living beings and their surrounding environment. The volume is organized around the analytic of the "threshold," which the contributors mobilize to think about how food serves as a threshold for human and inhuman relations. In addition to the single-authored chapters, the volume contains five conversational exchanges, which offers contributors the opportunity to discuss their work and the themes of the volume"--...