Title: Global appetites : American power and the literature of food /
Authors: Carruth, Allison
Year: 2013
Subjects: Cather, Willa, Criticism and interpretation.; Morrison, Toni.; Ozeki, Ruth, Criticism and interpretation.; Agriculture in literature.; Food in literature.; American literature History and criticism; American literature Women authors History and criticism.; Food writing United States.; Agricultural industries United States; Globalization; LITERARY CRITICISM Women Authors.
Abstract: "This literary study explores how agribusiness, industrial agriculture, and countercultural food movements underpin modern American conceptions of global power"--
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 lovacore memoir: food writing in the age of information; Notes; Bibliography; Index.