Read My Plate
The Literature of Food
1st Edition
Published on 29. May 2019
1 pages
978-1-9787-5635-9 (ISBN)
Description
Whether perusing a recipe or learning what a literary character eats, readers approach a text differently when reading about food. Read My Plate: The Literature of Food explores what narrators and characters (in fiction, in performance, and in the popular genre of the "food memoir") cook and eat. Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, the inmates of the Terezin concentration camp, performance artist Karen Finley, novelist Jhumpa Lahiri, playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, and the celebrated chef-turned-travel-journalist Anthony Bourdain are just a few examples of the writers whose works are discussed. Close readings of the literal and figurative "plates" in these texts allow a unique form of intimate access to the speakers' feelings and memories and help readers to understand more about how the dynamics of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and social class affect what the narrators/characters eat, from tourtière to collard greens to a school lunch bento box.
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Deborah R. Geis is professor of English at DePauw University.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One. The Hungry Yawp: Eating and Orality in Whitman and Ginsberg
Chapter Two. The Politics of Gluttony in Second-Generation Holocaust Literature
Chapter Three. Chukla Bukla: Cooking, Bengali-Indian-Anglo-American Writers, and the Merging of Cultures
Chapter Four. Feeding the Audience: Food, Feminism, and Performance Art
Chapter Five. The Last Black Man's Fried Chicken: Soul Food, Memory, and African American Culinary Writing
Chapter Six. Cooking Up a Storm: Recent Food Memoirs and the Angry Daughter
Chapter Seven. Eat and Run: Food Writing, Masculinity, and the "Male Midlife Crisis"
Chapter Eight. School Lunch: Bicultural Conflicts in Asian-American Women's Food Memoirs
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Introduction
Chapter One. The Hungry Yawp: Eating and Orality in Whitman and Ginsberg
Chapter Two. The Politics of Gluttony in Second-Generation Holocaust Literature
Chapter Three. Chukla Bukla: Cooking, Bengali-Indian-Anglo-American Writers, and the Merging of Cultures
Chapter Four. Feeding the Audience: Food, Feminism, and Performance Art
Chapter Five. The Last Black Man's Fried Chicken: Soul Food, Memory, and African American Culinary Writing
Chapter Six. Cooking Up a Storm: Recent Food Memoirs and the Angry Daughter
Chapter Seven. Eat and Run: Food Writing, Masculinity, and the "Male Midlife Crisis"
Chapter Eight. School Lunch: Bicultural Conflicts in Asian-American Women's Food Memoirs
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
