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...

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Main Author: Tompkins, Kyla Wazana.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©2012.
Series:America and the long 19th century.
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Call Number: GT2853.U5 T66 2012eb