ISBN:
9780814770023
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9780814738375 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
323 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780814738375
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
Series Statement:
America and the Long 19th Century
DDC:
394.120973
Keywords:
Online-Publikation
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Electronic books
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, do...
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Online-Ausg.:
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