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Author:   Gitanjali G. Shahani (San Francisco State University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.670kg
ISBN:  

9781108426329

ISBN 10:   1108426328
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   28 June 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction. Writing on food and literature Gitanjali Shahani; Part I. Origins: 1. Commensality David B. Goldstein; 2. The drive-thru supermarket: shopping carts and the foodscapes of American literature Andrew Warnes; 3. Gothic vegetarianism Parama Roy; 4. Good taste, good food, and the gastronome Denise Gigante; 5. The art of the recipe: American food writing avant-la-lettre J. Michelle Coghlan; 6. Existential disgust and the food of the philosopher Robert Appelbaum; Part II. Developments: 7. Visceral encounters: critical race studies and modern food fiction Catherine Keyser; 8. The ethics of eating together: the case of French postcolonial literature Valérie Loichot; 9. Eating athwart and queering food writing Elspeth Probyn; 10. Utilizing food studies with children's literature and its scholarship Scott Pollard and Kara Keeling; 11. Avant-garde food writing, modernist cuisine Allison Carruth; 12. Comic books and the culinary logic of late capitalism Rohit Chopra; Part III. Applications: 13. Inebriation: the poetics of drink Sandra Gilbert; 14. Vampires, alterity, and strange eating Jennifer Park; 15. Toast and the familiar in children's literature Frances E. Dolan; 16. Food, humour, and gender in Ishigaki Rin's poems Tomoko Aoyama; 17. Food, hunger, and Irish identity: self-starvation in Colum McCann's 'Hunger Strike' Miriam Mara; 18. Postcolonial hungers Deepika Bahri; Afterword Darra Goldstein.

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Gitanjali Shahani is Associate Professor of English at San Francisco State University. She has co-edited Emissaries in Early Modern Literature and Culture (2009). Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Studies, and several edited collections. She is currently completing a book on food, race, and colonialism in the early modern period.

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