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Racial Indigestion : Eating Bodies in the 19th Century /

"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
Autor principal: Tompkins, Kyla Wazana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.