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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
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations
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. The locavore memoir: 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 US 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. Through analysis of American texts ranging from Willa Cather's novel O Pioneers! (1913) to Novella Carpenter's non-fiction work Farm City (2009), Carruth argues that stories about how the United States cultivates, distributes and consumes food imbue it with the power to transform social and ecological systems around the world. Lively and accessible, this interdisciplinary study will appeal to scholars of American literature and culture as well as those working in the fields of food studies, food policy, agriculture history, social justice and the environmental humanities"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Criticism and interpretation
Morrison, Toni. Tar baby.
Ozeki, Ruth, 1956- -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 fast
Ozeki, Ruth, 1956- fast
Cather, Willa 1873-1947 gnd
Tar baby (Morrison, Toni) fast
Subject Agriculture in literature.
Food in literature.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Food writing -- United States
Agricultural industries -- United States
Globalization.
globalism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Agricultural industries
Agriculture in literature
American literature
American literature -- Women authors
Food in literature
Food writing
Globalization
Essen.
Landwirtschaft
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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