Global Appetites
Subtitle: American Power and the Literature of Food
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781107032828
Subjects: Cather, willa, 1873-1947; Morrison, toni, 1931-; Food in literature; American literature, history and criticism, 20th century; American literature, women authors; Agricultural industries; Industries, united states; Globalization
Description: "This literary study explores how agribusiness, industrial agriculture, and countercultural food movements underpin modern American conceptions of global power"--

"Global Appetites explores how industrial agriculture and countercultural food movements underpin U.S. 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"--