Racial indigestion : eating bodies in the 19th century /

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"The act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes the object being eaten. At the same time, eating performs a kind of vulnerability to the world, revealing a fundamental interdependence between the eater and that which exists outside her body. Racial Indigestion explores the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tompkins, Kyla Wazana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2012.
Colección:America and the long 19th century.
Temas:
Graham, Sylvester, > 1794-1851.
Alcott, Louisa May, > 1832-1888 > Criticism and interpretation.
Alcott, Louisa May, > 1832-1888.
1800-1899
Food habits > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Diet > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Cooking > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Human body > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Food in literature.
Habitudes alimentaires > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Alimentation > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Aliments dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Agriculture & Food.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Cooking > Social aspects.
Diet > Social aspects.
Food habits > Social aspects.
Human body > Social aspects.
Race relations.
Literatur
Ethnische Beziehungen
Kochen
Ess- und Trinksitte
Nahrung
Nahrungsaufnahme
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siècle.
United States.
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : eating bodies in the nineteenth century
  • Kitchen insurrections
  • "She made the table a snare to them" : Sylvester Graham's imperial dietetics
  • "Everything 'cept eat us" : the mouth as political organ in the antebellum novel
  • A wholesome girl : addiction, Grahamite dietetics and Louisa May Alcott's Rose
  • Campbell novels
  • "What's de use talking 'bout dem 'mendments?" : trade cards and late nineteenth-
  • Century consumer citizenship
  • Conclusion : racial indigestion.

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