Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food - Softcover

Carruth, Allison

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1316613305 ISBN 13: 9781316613306

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Global Appetites explores the extent that agribusiness, industrial agriculture and countercultural food movements underpin American conceptions of global power. This interdisciplinary study will appeal to scholars of American literature and culture as well as those working in fields of food studies, food policy, agriculture history, social justice and environmental humanities.

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Global Appetites explores how industrial agriculture and countercultural food movements underpin US conceptions of global power in the century since the First World War. Allison Carruth's study centers on what she terms the 'literature of food' - a body of work that comprises literary realism, late modernism and magical realism along with culinary writing, food memoir and advertising. Through analysis of American texts ranging from Willa Cather's novel O Pioneers! (1913) to Novella Carpenter's non-fiction work Farm City (2009), Carruth argues that stories about how the United States cultivates, distributes and consumes food imbue it with the power to transform social and ecological systems around the world. Lively and accessible, this interdisciplinary study will appeal to scholars of American literature and culture as well as those working in the fields of food studies, food policy, agriculture history, social justice and the environmental humanities.

Biografía del autor:

Allison Carruth is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on contemporary American literature and media, the environmental humanities, food studies, and science and technology studies. She received her PhD from Stanford University, California.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1316613305
• ISBN 13: 9781316613306
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 262