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Racial indigestion eating bodies in the 19th century /

"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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Основен автор: Tompkins, Kyla Wazana.
Формат: Електронен
Език: English
Публикувано: New York : New York University Press, ℗♭2012.
Серия: America and the long 19th century.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=474922
Подобни документи: Print version:: Racial indigestion.
Съдържание:
  • Introduction : eating bodies in the nineteenth century
  • Kitchen insurrections
  • "She made the table a snare to them" : Sylvester Graham's imperial dietetics
  • "Everything 'cept eat us" : the mouth as political organ in the antebellum novel
  • A wholesome girl : addiction, Grahamite dietetics and Louisa May Alcott's Rose
  • Campbell novels
  • "What's de use talking 'bout dem 'mendments?" : trade cards and late nineteenth-
  • Century consumer citizenship
  • Conclusion : racial indigestion.