Read My Plate

The Literature of Food

Deborah R. Geis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

180 Seiten

2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7443-3 (ISBN)

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Considering how recipes and food writing are read differently than other narratives, this book examines the concept of taste in food as cultural and emotional performance and shows how the dynamics of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and social class affect what literary characters and narrators eat.

Whether perusing a recipe or learning what a literary character eats, readers approach a text differently when reading about food. Read My Plate: The Literature of Food explores what narrators and characters (in fiction, in performance, and in the popular genre of the “food memoir”) cook and eat. Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, the inmates of the Terezin concentration camp, performance artist Karen Finley, novelist Jhumpa Lahiri, playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, and the celebrated chef-turned-travel-journalist Anthony Bourdain are just a few examples of the writers whose works are discussed. Close readings of the literal and figurative “plates” in these texts allow a unique form of intimate access to the speakers’ feelings and memories and helps readers to understand more about how the dynamics of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and social class affect what the narrators/characters eat, from tourtière to collard greens to a school lunch bento box.

Deborah R. Geis is professor of English at DePauw University.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One. The Hungry Yawp: Eating and Orality in Whitman and Ginsberg
Chapter Two. The Politics of Gluttony in Second-Generation Holocaust Literature
Chapter Three. Chukla Bukla: Cooking, Bengali-Indian-Anglo-American Writers, and the Merging of Cultures
Chapter Four. Feeding the Audience: Food, Feminism, and Performance Art
Chapter Five. The Last Black Man’s Fried Chicken: Soul Food, Memory, and African American Culinary Writing
Chapter Six. Cooking Up a Storm: Recent Food Memoirs and the Angry Daughter
Chapter Seven. Eat and Run: Food Writing, Masculinity, and the “Male Midlife Crisis”
Chapter Eight. School Lunch: Bicultural Conflicts in Asian-American Women’s Food Memoirs
Conclusion

Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 231 mm
Gewicht	422 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
	Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
ISBN-10	1-4985-7443-2 / 1498574432
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-7443-3 / 9781498574433
Zustand	Neuware