Global appetites : American power and the literature of food / / Allison Carruth.

"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...

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:xiii, 246 p. :; ill.
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Summary:"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" --
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781107032828
9781107333499 (electronic bk.)
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Allison Carruth.