Racial Indigestion : Eating Bodies in the 19th Century / Kyla Wazana Tompkins.
2012
GT2853.U5 T66 2012
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Title
Racial Indigestion : Eating Bodies in the 19th Century / Kyla Wazana Tompkins.
ISBN
9780814738375
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814738375.001.0001 doi
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GT2853.U5 T66 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
394.1 20973
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.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Series
America and the Long 19th Century ; ; 5
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print 9780814770023
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
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
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