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Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food Reprint Edition
Author(s): Allison Carruth (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: 6 April 2017
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 262 pages
- ISBN-10: 1316613305
- ISBN-13: 9781316613306
Book Description
Global Appetites explores how industrial agriculture and countercultural food movements underpin US conceptions of global power in the century since the First World War. Allison Carruth’s study centers on what she terms the ‘literature of food’ – a body of work that comprises literary realism, late modernism and magical realism along with culinary writing, food memoir and advertising. Through analysis of American texts ranging from Willa Cather’s novel O Pioneers! (1913) to Novella Carpenter’s non-fiction work Farm City (2009), Carruth argues that stories about how the United States cultivates, distributes and consumes food imbue it with the power to transform social and ecological systems around the world. Lively and accessible, this interdisciplinary study will appeal to scholars of American literature and culture as well as those working in the fields of food studies, food policy, agriculture history, social justice and the environmental humanities.
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Book Description
This literary study explores how agribusiness, industrial agriculture and countercultural food movements underpin modern American conceptions of global power.
About the Author
Allison Carruth is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on contemporary American literature and media, the environmental humanities, food studies, and science and technology studies. She received her PhD from Stanford University, California.
