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Author:

Shahani, Gitanjali author.

Title:

Tasting difference : food, race, and cultural encounters in early modern literature / Gitanjali G. Shahani.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Food in literature.
Food habits in literature.
Race in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Cultural relations in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Cultural relations in literature.
English literature--Early modern.
Food habits in literature.
Food in literature.
Race in literature.
Race relations in literature.
1500-1700
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Spices : "the spicèd Indian air" in Shakespeare's England -- Sugar : "so sweet was ne'er so fatal" -- Coffee : eating Othello, drinking coffee -- Bizarre foods : food, filth, and the foreign in the culinary contact zone -- Cannibal foods : "powdered wife" and other tales of English cannibalism.

Summary:

"Examines the colonial histories of everyday foods like sugar, spices, and coffee, arguing that that it is in the writing on food and eating that we see among the earliest configurations of racial difference"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

150174870X
9781501748707

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1107843961

LCCN:

2019026547

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)