Tasting Difference : Food, Race, and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Literature /

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"Examines the colonial histories of everyday foods like sugar, spices, and coffee, arguing that that it is in the writing on food and eating that we see among the earliest configurations of racial difference"--

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Shahani, Gitanjali (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Race relations in literature.
Race in literature.
Food in literature.
Food habits in literature.
English literature > Early modern.
Cultural relations in literature.
Colonies in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
Colonies dans la litterature.
Relations culturelles dans la litterature.
Relations raciales dans la litterature.
Race dans la litterature.
Habitudes alimentaires dans la litterature.
Aliments dans la litterature.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Spices : "the spiced Indian air" in Shakespeare's England
  • Sugar : "so sweet was ne'er so fatal"
  • Coffee : eating Othello, drinking coffee
  • Bizarre foods : food, filth, and the foreign in the culinary contact zone
  • Cannibal foods : "powdered wife" and other tales of English cannibalism.

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