Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-165) and index.
Contents:
The hungry yawp : eating and orality in Whitman and Ginsberg -- The politics of gluttony in second-generation Holocaust literature -- Chukla Bukla : cooking, Bengali-Indian-Anglo-American writers, and the merging of cultures -- Feeding the audience : food, feminism, and performance art -- The last Black man's fried chicken : soul food, memory, and African American culinary writing -- Cooking up a storm : recent food memoirs and the angry daughter -- Eat and run : food writing, masculinity, and the "male midlife crisis" -- School lunch : bicultural conflicts in Asian-American women's food memoirs.
Summary:
"Considering how recipes and food writing are read differently than other narratives, this book examines the concept of taste in food as cultural and emotional performance and shows how the dynamics of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and social class affect what literary characters and narrators eat"-- Provided by publisher.
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