ISBN:
0814770053
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0814738370
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9780814770054
,
9780814738375
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 275 p., [32] p. of plates)
Series Statement:
America and the long 19th century
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Tompkins, Kyla Wazana Racial indigestion
Keywords:
Alcott, Louisa May Criticism and interpretation
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Graham, Sylvester
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Graham, Sylvester
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Alcott, Louisa May
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Diet Social aspects 19th century
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History
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Cooking Social aspects 19th century
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History
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Human body Social aspects 19th century
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History
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Food in literature
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Food habits Social aspects 19th century
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History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Agriculture & Food
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Customs & Traditions
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HISTORY ; United States ; 19th Century
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HISTORY ; United States ; 20th Century
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Cooking ; Social aspects
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Diet ; Social aspects
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Food habits ; Social aspects
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Food in literature
;
Human body ; Social aspects
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Race relations
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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History
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United States Race relations 19th century
;
History
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United States
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Introduction : eating bodies in the nineteenth century -- Kitchen insurrections -- "She made the table a snare to them" : Sylvester Graham's imperial dietetics -- "Everything 'cept eat us" : the mouth as political organ in the antebellum novel -- A wholesome girl : addiction, Grahamite dietetics and Louisa May Alcott's Rose -- Campbell novels -- "What's de use talking 'bout dem 'mendments?" : trade cards and late nineteenth- -- Century consumer citizenship -- Conclusion : racial indigestion
Abstract:
"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."--Project Muse
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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