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Devouring Cultures: Perspectives on Food, Power, and Identity from the Zombie Apocalypse to Downton Abbey (Food and Foodways)
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Description for Devouring Cultures: Perspectives on Food, Power, and Identity from the Zombie Apocalypse to Downton Abbey (Food and Foodways)
Paperback. Editor(s): Sublette, Cammie M.; Martin, Jennifer. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Devouring Cultures brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines including media studies, rhetoric, gender studies, philosophy, anthropology, literary criticism, film criticism, race theory, history, and linguistics to examine the ways food signifies both culture and identity.
These scholars look for answers to intriguing questions: What does our choice of dining house say about our social class? Can restaurants teach us about a culture? How does food operate in Downton Abbey? How does food consumption in zombie apocalypse films and apocalyptic lit- erature relate to contemporary food-chain crises and food nostalgia? What aspects of racial conflict, assimilation, and ... Read more
Devouring Cultures brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines including media studies, rhetoric, gender studies, philosophy, anthropology, literary criticism, film criticism, race theory, history, and linguistics to examine the ways food signifies both culture and identity.
These scholars look for answers to intriguing questions: What does our choice of dining house say about our social class? Can restaurants teach us about a culture? How does food operate in Downton Abbey? How does food consumption in zombie apocalypse films and apocalyptic lit- erature relate to contemporary food-chain crises and food nostalgia? What aspects of racial conflict, assimilation, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557286918
SKU
V9781557286918
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About
Cammie M. Sublette is professor of English at the University of Arkansas, Fort Smith, specializing in African American literature, race theory, and food studies. Jennifer Martin is a University of South Carolina Presidential Teaching Fellow in Social Advocacy and Ethical Life working toward her PhD in twentieth-century American literature.
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