Racial Indigestion : : Eating Bodies in the 19th Century / / Kyla Wazana Tompkins.
The act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes the object being eaten. At the same time, eating performs a kind of vulnerability to the world, revealing a fundamental interdependence between the eater and that which exists outside her body. Racial Indigestion explores the links...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | America and the Long 19th Century ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Kitchen Insurrections
- 2 “She Made the Table a Snare to Them”
- 3 “Everything ’Cept Eat Us”
- 4 A Wholesome Girl
- 5 “What’s De Use Talking ’Bout Dem ’Mendments?”
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author