Racial indigestion : eating bodies in the nineteenth century /

Racial indigestion : eating bodies in the nineteenth century / Kyla Wazana Tompkins.

This book explores the links between food, visual and literary culture in the nineteenth-century United States to reveal how eating produces political subjects by justifying the social discourses that create bodily meaning. Using an archive of children's literature, architectural history, domes...

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Main Author: Tompkins, Kyla Wazana.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2012]
Series:America and the long 19th century.
Subjects:
Graham, Sylvester, > 1794-1851.
Alcott, Louisa May, > 1832-1888 > Criticism and interpretation.
Food habits > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Diet > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Cooking > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Human body > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Food in literature.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.

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