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Literary gastronomy
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ISBN: 9051830629 Year: 1988 Volume: vol 1 Publisher: Amsterdam Atlanta Rodopi

Hunger overcome ? : food and resistance in twentieth-century African American literature
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ISBN: 0820325627 0820325295 Year: 2004 Publisher: Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press,


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Artificial color : modern food and racial fictions
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ISBN: 9780197620182 0197620183 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press,

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In Artificial Color, Catherine Keyser examines the early twentieth century phenomenon, wherein US writers became fascinated with modern food-global geographies, nutritional theories, and technological innovations. African American literature of the 1920s and 1930s uses new food technologies as imaginative models for resisting and recasting oppressive racial categories. In his masterwork Cane (1923), Jean Toomer follows sugar from the boiling-pots of the South to the speakeasies of the North. Through effervescent and colorful soda, he rejects the binary of black and white in favor of a dream of artificial color and a new American race. In his serial science fiction, Black Empire (1938-39), George Schuyler associates hydroponics and raw foods with racial hybridity and utopian futures. The second half of the book focuses on white expatriate writers who experienced local food cultures as sensuous encounters with racial others. Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein associate regional European races with the ideal of terroir and aspire to transplantation through their own connoisseurship. In their novels set in the Mediterranean, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald both dramatize the white body's susceptibility to intoxicating and stimulating substances like wine and coffee. For Scott Fitzgerald, the climatological and culinary corruption of the South produces the tragic fall of white masculinity. For Zelda, by contrast, it exposes the destructiveness and fictitiousness of the white feminine purity ideal. During the Great Depression and the Second World War, African American writers Zora Neale Hurston and Dorothy West exposed the racism that shaped the global food industry and the precarity of black labor. Their engagement with food, however, insisted upon pleasure as well as vulnerability, the potential of sensuous flesh and racial affiliation.

Anglo-Saxon appetites : food and drink and their consumption in Old English and related literature
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ISBN: 1851823824 9781851823826 Year: 1999 Publisher: Dublin : Four courts press,

Empire of pleasures : luxury and indulgence in the Roman world
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ISBN: 0415280737 0415186242 9780415280730 Year: 2000

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Boissons--habitudes dans la littérature --- Dinners and dining in literature --- Drinkgewoonten in de literatuur --- Drinking customs in literature --- Eetgewoonten in de literatuur --- Eetmalen in de literatuur --- Food habits in literature --- Genot in de literatuur --- Habitudes alimentaires dans la littérature --- Healths [Drinking of] --- Jouissance dans la littérature --- Literatuur [Voedingsgewoonten in de ] --- Littérature [Habitudes alimentaires dans la ] --- Lust (Gevoel) in de literatuur --- Luxe dans la littérature --- Luxe in de literatuur --- Luxury in literature --- Plaisir dans la littérature --- Pleasure in literature --- Repas dans la littérature --- Sens et sensation dans la littérature --- Senses and sensation in literature --- Voedingsgewoonten in de literatuur --- Zintuigen en gewaarwording in de literatuur --- -Luxury in literature --- -Dinners and dining in literature --- -Aliments dans la littérature --- Luxe dans la littérature --- Repas dans la littérature --- Plaisir dans la littérature --- Food in literature --- Gastronomy in literature --- Latin poetry --- History and criticism --- Rome --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- History --- Poésie latine --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. --- Poésie latine --- Banquets --- Boissons --- Habitudes alimentaires --- Luxure --- Plaisir --- Sensualisme --- Thèmes, motifs --- Dans la littérature --- Civilisation --- 30 av. J.-C.-284 --- 284-476 --- 30 av. J.-C.-476 (Empire)

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