Devouring cultures : perspectives on food, power, and identity from the zombie apocalypse to Downton Abbey / edited by Cammie M. Sublette and Jennifer Martin.
Devouring Cultures brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines including media studies, rhetoric, gender studies, philosophy, anthropology, literary criticism, film criticism, race theory, history, and linguistics to examine the ways food signifies both culture and identity. These...
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Fayetteville [Arkansas] :
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[2016]
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| Series: | Food and foodways (Fayetteville, Ark.)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : American self-fashioning and culinary consumption
- part 1. Eating out : how restaurants shape cultural identity
- 1. "Between bolted beef and bolted pudding" : Boston's eating houses and nineteenth-century social and cultural change / Kelly Erby
- 2. Nervous kitchens : consuming sentimentality narratives and black-white intimacy at a Chicago hot dog stand / Jessica Kenyatta Walker
- 3. A pedagogy of dining out : learning to consume culture / Joe Marshall Hardin
- Part 2 . Consuming literature : food and identity in writing
- 4. Hunger pains : appetite and racial longing in Stealing Buddha's dinner / Laura Anh Williams
- 5. Consuming American consumerism in The road / Jennifer Martin
- 6. From Aunt Jemima to Aunt Marthy : commodifying the kitchen cook and undermining white authority in Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Krystal McMillen
- Part 3. Consuming popular culture : food identity defined in television and movies
- 7. Scenes from the dialogic kitchen : "thinking culture dialogically" in Italian American narratives / James Cianciola
- 8. Consuming pleasures : nineteenth-century cookery as narrative structure in Downton Abbey / Lindsy Lawrence
- 9. Pie as nostalgia : what one food symbolizes for every generation of Americans / Rachel S. Hawley
- 10. The last Twinkie in the universe : culinary hedonism and nostalgia in zombie films / Cammie M. Sublette.