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Author:   Justyna Kociatkiewicz ,  Laura Suchostawska ,  Dominika Ferens
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   7
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9783631646625

ISBN 10:   3631646623
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   28 October 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Tomasz Basiuk: Tarte aux pommes, or, Delicacies Morally Good for You – Małgorzata Poks: Voluntary Simplicity and Voluntary Poverty: Alternatives to Consumer Culture – Aneta Dybska: The Battle over Squash and Beans: Food Justice Activism in a Polarized City – Justyna Wierzchowska: Consuming the Artist, Consuming the Image: Marina Abramović 2001 MOCA Gala Controversy – Zofia Kolbuszewska: An Abject Guide to America: CSI Lab Autopsy and Stomach Contents as an (Ironic) Index of Interiorizing the Global and the Local – Agata Zarzycka: Unhappy Meals: Fast Food and the Crisis of the Underground in American Goth-themed Fiction and Graphic Novels – Oskar Zasada: Devouring Heroism: An Archetype Crisis in American Pop Culture – Elisabeth A. Frost: Performing Witness: The New Documentary Poetics – Jacek Partyka: Writing of Crisis and Crisis of Writing: Charles Reznikoff’s Testimony (1934) – Joseph Kuhn: The Pale Horseman: Crisis in the Fiction of Katherine Anne Porter – Marta Kova: Indigestible America and the Crisis of Multiculturalism in Aleksandar Hemon’s Fiction – Anna Gilarek: Humanity in Crisis: Man-made Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood – Dominika Bugno-Narecka: Food (and) War in Gravity's Rainbow – Agnieszka Kaczmarek: Eating Itself to Death: The USA as Seen by McCarthy and Twain – Paulina Ambroży: «Resistance Is the Opposite of Escape»: Still Life as Sustenance in the Poems of Wallace Stevens and Gertrude Stein – Veronika Hofstätter: «Twas very hard to get down their filthy trash»: Investigating Food and Crisis in Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative (1682) – Małgorzata Martynuska: Consuming Latinidad: Mexican Foodways in Maria Ripoll’s Tortilla Soup (2001) – Jerzy Kamionowski: «Steam-driven cannibals … claim us flesh eaters,– wish we were»: Black Sustainability through the Voice in African American Poetry on the Middle Passage – Laura Suchostawska: Thoreau and the Indians, or a Crisis of the American Ideals of the Wild and Wilderness – Francesca de Lucia: Marching through Wilderness: Relating to the Environment in an Italian American Perspective – Dominika Ferens: Between Taste and Interest: Reading Asian American Literature in the Age of Food Literacy.

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Justyna Kociatkiewicz, Laura Suchostawska and Dominika Ferens are associate professors at the University of Wrocław (Poland). Their fields of interest include contemporary American novel, conspiracy theory and narrative theories; cognitive linguistics and poetics as well as eco-linguistics; and American minority literatures, theories of race, gender and sexuality respectively.

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