Global appetites : American power and the literature of food

Global appetites : American power and the literature of food /

"This literary study explores how agribusiness, industrial agriculture, and countercultural food movements underpin modern American conceptions of global power"--

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Online Access:	Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author:	Carruth, Allison (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013
Subjects:	Cather, Willa, > 1873-1947 > Criticism and interpretation. Morrison, Toni. > Tar baby. Ozeki, Ruth, > 1956- > Criticism and interpretation. Agriculture in literature. Food in literature. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Food writing > United States. Agricultural industries > United States. Globalization. globalism.
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

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Summary:	"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 US 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. Through analysis of American texts ranging from Willa Cather's novel O Pioneers! (1913) to Novella Carpenter's non-fiction work Farm City (2009), Carruth argues that stories about how the United States cultivates, distributes and consumes food imbue it with the power to transform social and ecological systems around the world. Lively and accessible, this interdisciplinary study will appeal to scholars of American literature and culture as well as those working in the fields of food studies, food policy, agriculture history, social justice and the environmental humanities"--Provided by publisher
Physical Description:	1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781107333499 1107333490 9781107336810 1107336813 9781139507400 1139507400 1107327059 9781107327054 1107238110 9781107238114 1316613305 9781316613306 1107335159 9781107335158 1107332702 9781107332706 1107335981 9781107335981
Language:	English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:	Print version record.