Meat!
A Transnational Analysis
1st Edition
Published on 15. February 2021
312 pages
978-1-4780-1248-1 (ISBN)
Description
The contributors to Meat! examine the transnational politics of various manifestations and understandings of meat as well as meat's entanglement with power, politics, culture, race, gender, sexuality.
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Sushmita Chatterjee is Associate Professor of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at Appalachian State University.
Banu Subramaniam is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Banu Subramaniam is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. How to Think with Meat / Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam 1
1. When Fish Is Meat: Transnational Entanglements / Elspeth Probyn 17
2. Eating the Mother / Irina Aristarkhova 39
3. Reindeer and Woolly Mammoths: The Imperial Transit of Frozen Meat from the North American Arctic / Jennifer A. Hamilton 61
4. Beefing Yoga: Meat, Corporeality, and Politics / Sushmita Chatterjee 96
5. Eating after Chernobyl: Slow Violence and Reindeer Consumption in the Postnuclear Age / Anita Mannur 121
6. Romancing the Pig: A Queer Crip Tale from Barbeque to Xenotransplantation / Kim Q. Hall 139
7. On Being Meat: Three Parables on Sacrifice and Violence / Parama Roy 162
8. "I Hide in Plain Sight": Food and Black Masculinity in Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad / Psyche Williams-Forson 194
9. On Phooka: Beef, Milk, and the Framing of Animal Cruelty in Late Colonial Bengal / Neel Ahuja 213
10. Fake Meat: A Queer Commentary / Angela Willey 241
11. The Ethical Impurative: Elemental Frontiers of Technologized Meat / Banu Subramaniam 254
12. Fire and Ash / Mel Y. Chen 279
About the Contributors 293
Index 293
Introduction. How to Think with Meat / Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam 1
1. When Fish Is Meat: Transnational Entanglements / Elspeth Probyn 17
2. Eating the Mother / Irina Aristarkhova 39
3. Reindeer and Woolly Mammoths: The Imperial Transit of Frozen Meat from the North American Arctic / Jennifer A. Hamilton 61
4. Beefing Yoga: Meat, Corporeality, and Politics / Sushmita Chatterjee 96
5. Eating after Chernobyl: Slow Violence and Reindeer Consumption in the Postnuclear Age / Anita Mannur 121
6. Romancing the Pig: A Queer Crip Tale from Barbeque to Xenotransplantation / Kim Q. Hall 139
7. On Being Meat: Three Parables on Sacrifice and Violence / Parama Roy 162
8. "I Hide in Plain Sight": Food and Black Masculinity in Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad / Psyche Williams-Forson 194
9. On Phooka: Beef, Milk, and the Framing of Animal Cruelty in Late Colonial Bengal / Neel Ahuja 213
10. Fake Meat: A Queer Commentary / Angela Willey 241
11. The Ethical Impurative: Elemental Frontiers of Technologized Meat / Banu Subramaniam 254
12. Fire and Ash / Mel Y. Chen 279
About the Contributors 293
Index 293
