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Author:

Carruth, Allison, author.

Title:

Global appetites : American power and the literature of food / Allison Carruth, University of California, Los Angeles.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xiii, 246 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Agriculture in literature.
Food in literature.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Cather, Willa,--1873-1947--Criticism and interpretation.
Morrison, Toni.--Tar baby.
Ozeki, Ruth L.--Criticism and interpretation.
Food writing--United States.
Agricultural industries--United States.
Globalization.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors.
Cather, Willa,--1873-1947.
Essen.
Landwirtschaft.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-233) and index.

Contents:

1. Introduction: the power of food -- 2. Rural modernity: Willa Cather and the rise of agribusiness -- 3. 'Luxury feeding' and war rations: food writing at midcentury -- 4. Supermarkets and exotic foods: Toni Morrison's 'chocolate eater' -- 5. Postindustrial pastoral: Ruth Ozeki and the new muckrakers -- 6. Conclusion: food writing in the age of information.

Summary:

"This literary study explores how agribusiness, industrial agriculture, and countercultural food movements underpin modern American conceptions of global power"-- Provided by publisher.
"Global Appetites explores how industrial agriculture and countercultural food movements underpin U.S. 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" -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781107032828 (hardback)
1107032822 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)807768721

LCCN:

2012031891

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)