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Transnational in scope, this much-needed volume explores how
modernist writers and artists address and critique dramatic changes
to food systems that took place in the early twentieth century. In
this period, small farms were being replaced with industrial
agriculture, political upheavals exacerbated food scarcity in many
countries, and globalization opened up new modes of distributing
culinary commodities. Looking at a unique variety of texts by
authors from Ireland, Italy, France, the United States, India, the
former Soviet Union, and New Zealand, contributors draw attention
to modernist representations of food. Among other topics, they
consider Oscar Wilde's aestheticization of food, Katherine
Mansfield's use of eggs as a feminist symbol, Langston Hughes's
frequent use of chocolate as a metaphor for blackness, Futurist
cuisine and avant-garde cookbooks, and the effects of national
famines in the work of James Joyce, Viktor Shklovsky, and
Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay. The diverse topics and methodologies
assembled here illustrate how food studies can enrich research in
the literary and visual arts. A milestone volume, this collection
introduces possibilities for understanding the connection between
modernist aesthetics and the emerging food cultures of a
globalizing world.
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