Deborah R. Geis

Read My Plate (eBook, PDF)

The Literature of Food

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Whether perusing a recipe or learning what a literary character eats, readers approach a text differently when reading about food. Read My Plate: The Literature of Food explores what narrators and characters (in fiction, in performance, and in the popular genre of the "food memoir") cook and eat. Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, the inmates of the Terezin concentration camp, performance artist Karen Finley, novelist Jhumpa Lahiri, playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, and the celebrated chef-turned-travel-journalist Anthony Bourdain are just a few examples of the writers whose works are discussed. Close readings of the literal and figurative "plates" in these texts allow a unique form of intimate access to the speakers' feelings and memories and help readers to understand more about how the dynamics of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and social class affect what the narrators/characters eat, from tourtière to collard greens to a school lunch bento box.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978756359
• Artikelnr.: 74397472

Autorenporträt

Deborah R. Geis is professor of English at DePauw University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. The Hungry Yawp: Eating and
Orality in Whitman and Ginsberg Chapter Two. The Politics of Gluttony in
Second-Generation Holocaust Literature Chapter Three. Chukla Bukla:
Cooking, Bengali-Indian-Anglo-American Writers, and the Merging of Cultures
Chapter Four. Feeding the Audience: Food, Feminism, and Performance Art
Chapter Five. The Last Black Man's Fried Chicken: Soul Food, Memory, and
African American Culinary Writing Chapter Six. Cooking Up a Storm: Recent
Food Memoirs and the Angry Daughter Chapter Seven. Eat and Run: Food
Writing, Masculinity, and the "Male Midlife Crisis" Chapter Eight. School
Lunch: Bicultural Conflicts in Asian-American Women's Food Memoirs
Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author