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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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: the power of food; 2. Rural modernity: Willa Cather and the rise of agribusiness; 3. 'Luxury feeding' and war rations: food writing at midcentury; 4. Supermarkets and exotic foods: Toni Morrison's 'chocolate eater'; 5. Postindustrial pastoral: Ruth Ozeki and the new muckrakers; 6. Conclusion: food writing in the age of information; Bibliography; Notes; Index.