Racial indigestion
Subtitle: eating bodies in the nineteenth century
By: Kyla Wazana Tompkins
Series: America and the long 19th century
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814770023; 9780814770030; 9780814770054; 9780814738375
Subjects: Race relations; Food habits; Cooking; Criticism and interpretation; Diet; Food in literature; Human body; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : eating bodies in the nineteenth century; title: Kitchen insurrections; title: "She made the table a snare to them" : Sylvester Graham's imperial dietetics; title: "Everything 'cept eat us" : the mouth as political organ in the antebellum novel; title: A wholesome girl : addiction, Grahamite dietetics and Louisa May Alcott's Rose; title: Campbell novels; title: "What's de use talking 'bout dem 'mendments?" : trade cards and late nineteenth-; title: Century consumer citizenship; title: Conclusion : racial indigestion.