Global appetites: American power and the literature of food/ Allison Carruth.
Publication details: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.Description: xiii, 246pISBN:- 9781107032828
- Agriculture in literature
- Food in literature
- American literature- 20th century- History and criticism
- American literature- Women authors- History and criticism
- Cather, Willa,1873-1947- Criticism and interpretation
- Morison, Toni. Tar baby
- Ozeki, Ruth L- Criticism and interpretation
- Food writing- United States
- Agricultural industries- United States
- Globalization
- 810.935 64 Q3
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-233) and index.
"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" --
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