Racial Indigestion

Eating Bodies In The 19th Century

by Kyla Wazana Tompkins
language: english
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS, July of 2012 ‧
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Explores the links between food, visual and literary culture in the nineteenth-century United States to reveal how eating produces political subjects by justifying the social discourses that create bodily meaning. This is the story of the consolidation of nationalist mythologies of whiteness via the erotic politics of consumption.

Racial Indigestion

Eating Bodies In The 19th Century

by Kyla Wazana Tompkins

Property Description
ISBN: 9780814770023
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: July of 2012
Language: English
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Format: Book
Collection: America And The Long 19th Century
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > History of Literature
EAN: 9780814770023

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