Racial Indigestion : Eating Bodies in the 19th Century

By (author) Tompkins, Kyla Wazana

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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書名 Racial Indigestion : Eating Bodies in the 19th Century
著作者等 Tompkins, Kyla Wazana
書名別名 Eating Bodies in the 19th Century
シリーズ名 America and the Long 19th Century
出版元 New York University Press
刊行年月 2012.08.09
ページ数 288p
大きさ H236 x W155
ISBN 9780814770023
言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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