Read My Plate - The Literature of Food (Hardcover)

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 helps readers to understand more about how the dynamics of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and social class affect what the narrators/characters eat, from tourtiere to collard greens to a school lunch bento box.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2019
Authors:	Deborah R. Geis
Dimensions:	231 x 159 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	180
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-7443-3
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	1-4985-7443-2
Barcode:	9781498574433

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