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Public History and the Food Movement argues that today's broad
interest in making food systems fairer, healthier, and more
sustainable offers a compelling opportunity for the public history
field. Moon and Stanton show how linking heritage institutions'
unique skills and resources with contemporary food issues can offer
accessible points of entry for the public into broad questions
about human and environmental resilience. They argue that this
approach can also benefit institutions themselves, by offering
potential new audiences, partners, and sources of support at a time
when many are struggling to remain relevant and viable. Interviews
with innovative practitioners in both the food and history fields
offer additional insights. Drawing on both scholarship and
practice, Public History and the Food Movement presents a practical
toolkit for engagement. Demonstrating how public historians can
take on a vital contemporary issue while remaining true to the
guiding principles of historical research and interpretation, the
book challenges public historians to claim an expanded role in
today's food politics. The fresh thinking will also be of interest
to public historians looking to engage with other timely issues.
Food is such a friendly topic that it's often thought of as a
"hook" for engaging visitors - a familiar way into other topics, or
a sensory element to round out a living history interpretation. But
it's more than just a hook - it's a topic all its own, with its own
history and its own uncertain future, deserving of a central place
in historic interpretation. With audiences more interested in food
than ever before, and new research in food studies bringing
interdisciplinary approaches to this complicated but compelling
subject, museums and historic sites have an opportunity to draw new
audiences and infuse new meaning into their food presentations.
You'll find: *A comprehensive, thematic framework of key concepts
that will help you contextualize food history interpretations; *A
concise, evaluative review of the historiography of food
interpretation; *Case studies featuring the expression of these
themes in the real world of museum interpretation; and *Best
practices for interpreting food. Interpreting Food at Museums and
Historic Sites offers a framework for understanding the big ideas
in food history, suggesting best practices for linking objects,
exhibits and demonstrations with the larger story of change in food
production and consumption over the past two centuries - a story in
which your visitors can see themselves, and explore their own
relationships to food. This book can help you develop food
interpretation with depth and significance, making relevant
connections to contemporary issues and visitor interests.
Food is such a friendly topic that it's often thought of as a
"hook" for engaging visitors - a familiar way into other topics, or
a sensory element to round out a living history interpretation. But
it's more than just a hook - it's a topic all its own, with its own
history and its own uncertain future, deserving of a central place
in historic interpretation. With audiences more interested in food
than ever before, and new research in food studies bringing
interdisciplinary approaches to this complicated but compelling
subject, museums and historic sites have an opportunity to draw new
audiences and infuse new meaning into their food presentations.
You'll find: *A comprehensive, thematic framework of key concepts
that will help you contextualize food history interpretations; *A
concise, evaluative review of the historiography of food
interpretation; *Case studies featuring the expression of these
themes in the real world of museum interpretation; and *Best
practices for interpreting food. Interpreting Food offers a
framework for understanding the big ideas in food history,
suggesting best practices for linking objects, exhibits and
demonstrations with the larger story of change in food production
and consumption over the past two centuries - a story in which your
visitors can see themselves, and explore their own relationships to
food. This book can help you develop food interpretation with depth
and significance, making relevant connections to contemporary
issues and visitor interests.
Public History and the Food Movement argues that today's broad
interest in making food systems fairer, healthier, and more
sustainable offers a compelling opportunity for the public history
field. Moon and Stanton show how linking heritage institutions'
unique skills and resources with contemporary food issues can offer
accessible points of entry for the public into broad questions
about human and environmental resilience. They argue that this
approach can also benefit institutions themselves, by offering
potential new audiences, partners, and sources of support at a time
when many are struggling to remain relevant and viable. Interviews
with innovative practitioners in both the food and history fields
offer additional insights. Drawing on both scholarship and
practice, Public History and the Food Movement presents a practical
toolkit for engagement. Demonstrating how public historians can
take on a vital contemporary issue while remaining true to the
guiding principles of historical research and interpretation, the
book challenges public historians to claim an expanded role in
today's food politics. The fresh thinking will also be of interest
to public historians looking to engage with other timely issues.
Following the texts is an album of portraits of Whitman, as well as
"Whitman on His Art," a collection of Whitman's statements about
his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters,
conversations, and newspaper articles. While continuing to provide
leading commentary on Whitman by major twentieth-century poets and
critics, among them D. H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, and
Randall Jarrell, this revised edition adds important commentary by
Whitman contemporaries Henry David Thoreau, Fanny Fern, Henry
James, and Oscar Wilde, among others. An entirely new section of
recent criticism includes six essays--by David S. Reynolds, Karen
Sanchez-Eppler, John Irwin, Allen Grossman, Betsy Erkkila, and
Michael Moon--that reflect both the continuing historicist
mainstream of Whitman literary interpretation and influential
recent work in gender and sexuality studies. The volume also
includes a Chronology, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index of
Titles.
In the footsteps of Coelho's Alchemist and Hesse's Siddhartha,
The Plateau Of Remembrance presents a new timeless journey. The
sequel to The Lost Ego With Five Outback Myths, it illustrates the
nocturnal visionary pen of poet and artist Michael Moon. In a long
tradition of literary exploration, Moon invites you to relax on an
armchair of sublime seclusion in the enchanting Australian outback.
Quench your spirit and join the wanderer Zearben in a ripple of
unique awakenings and realizations brought to life through vivid
poetry, verse and prose in astounding imagery.
"The Plateau Of Remembrance" offers reflections of silken
moonlight, in ancient scorched deserts, backdropped across the
great southern starscapes, in vast orbits of endless horizons. It
chronicles Zearben's mystical journey in a way that draws out
emotions rarely experienced.
"The most beautiful writing I have ever read. ... I have
practically worshiped the writing of Gibran and Tagore, but you
have well and truly surpassed both." -Freda Scott, poet
In a rainbow of rich
poetic adventure
The Great Wanderer Zearben
climbs a beautiful dreamtime
mountain in isolated enchantment.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Henry Darger (1892-1973) was a hospital janitor and an immensely
productive artist and writer. In the first decades of adulthood, he
wrote a 15,145-page fictional epic, In the Realms of the Unreal. He
spent much of the rest of his long life illustrating it in
astonishing drawings and watercolors. In Darger's unfolding saga,
pastoral utopias are repeatedly savaged by extreme violence
directed at children, particularly girls. Given his disturbing
subject matter and the extreme solitude he maintained throughout
his life, critics have characterized Darger as eccentric, deranged,
and even dangerous, as an outsider artist compelled to create a
fantasy universe. Contesting such pathologizing interpretations,
Michael Moon looks to Darger's resources, to the narratives and
materials that inspired him and often found their way into his
writing, drawings, and paintings. Moon finds an artist who reveled
in the burgeoning popular culture of the early twentieth century,
in its newspaper comic strips, pulp fiction, illustrated children's
books, and mass-produced religious art. Moon contends that Darger's
work deserves and rewards comparison with that of contemporaries of
his, such as the "pulp historians" H. P. Lovecraft and Robert
Howard, the Oz chronicler L. Frank Baum, and the newspaper
cartoonist Bud Fisher.
"The Weather in Proust "gathers pieces written by the eminent
critic and theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in the last decade of her
life, as she worked toward a book on Proust. This book takes its
title from the first essay, a startlingly original interpretation
of Proust. By way of Neoplatonism, Buddhism, and the work of
Melanie Klein, Sedgwick establishes the sense of refreshment and
surprise that the author of the "Recherche" affords his readers.
Proust also figures in pieces on the poetry of C. P. Cavafy, object
relations, affect theory, and Sedgwick's textile art practices.
More explicitly connected to her role as a pioneering queer
theorist are an exuberant attack against reactionary refusals of
the work of Guy Hocquenghem and talks in which she lays out her
central ideas about sexuality and her concerns about the direction
of US queer theory. Sedgwick lived for more than a dozen years with
a diagnosis of terminal cancer; its implications informed her later
writing and thinking, as well as her spiritual and artistic
practices. In the book's final and most personal essay, she
reflects on the realization of her impending death. Featuring
thirty-seven color images of her art, "The Weather in Proust"
offers a comprehensive view of Sedgwick's later work, underscoring
its diversity and coherence.
Focusing on intersecting issues of nation, race, and gender, this
volume inaugurates new models for American literary and cultural
history. Subjects and Citizens reveals the many ways in which a
wide range of canonical and non-canonical writing contends with the
most crucial social, political, and literary issues of our past and
present.
Defining the landscape of the New American literary history, these
essays are united by three interrelated concerns: ideas of origin
(where does American literature begin?), ideas of nation (what does
American literature mean?), and ideas of race and gender (what does
American literature include and exclude and how?). Work by writers
as diverse as Aphra Behn, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe,
Frances Harper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, William
Faulkner, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln,
Bharati Mukherjee, Booker T. Washington, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin,
Americo Paredes, and Toni Morrison are discussed from several
theoretical perspectives, using a variety of methodologies. Issues
of the frontier and the border as well as those of coloniality and
postcoloniality are explored. In each case, these essays emphasize
the ideological nature of national identity and, more specifically,
the centrality of race and gender to our concept of
nationhood.
Collected from recent issues of American Literature, with three new
essays added, Subjects and Citizens charts the new directions being
taken in American literary studies.Contributors. Daniel Cooper
Alarcon, Lori Askeland, Stephanie Athey, Nancy Bentley, Lauren
Berlant, Michele A. Birnbaum, Kristin Carter-Sanborn, Russ
Castronovo, Joan Dayan, Julie Ellison, Sander L. Gilman, Karla F.
C. Holloway, Annette Kolodny, Barbara Ladd, Lora Romero, Ramon
Saldivar, Maggie Sale, Siobhan Senier, Timothy Sweet, Maurice
Wallace, Elizabeth Young
Within twelve years of the first appearance of Leaves of Grass in
1855, Walt Whitman produced three other editions of what he
insisted were the "same" work; two more followed later in his life.
Rather than asking which of these editions is best, Michael Moon,
in Disseminating Whitman, argues that the very existence of
distinct versions of the text raises essential questions about it.
Interpreting "revision" more profoundly than earlier Whitman
critics have done, while treating the poet's homosexuality as a
cultural and political fact rather than merely as a biographical
datum, Moon shows how Whitman's continual modifications of his work
intersect with the representations of male-male desire throughout
his writing. What is subjected to endless revision throughout the
first four editions of Leaves of Grass, Moon argues, is a
historically specific set of political principles governing how the
human body-Whitman's avowed subject-was conceptualized and
controlled in mid-nineteenth-century America. Moon interprets
Whitman's project as one that continually engages in such divergent
contemporaneous discourse of the body as the anti-onanist ones of
the "male-purity" movement, anti-slaver writing, "temperance"
tracts, and guides to conduct for the aspiring "self-made man."
Critically applying various interpretive models from
psychoanalysis, literary and cultural theory, and gender studies,
and heeding recurring patterns of language and figure, Moon
provides rigorous intertextual readings of Whitman's canon.
Ingeniously employing "The Child's Champion" as a paradigm, Moon
scrutinizes such celebrated poems as "Song of Myself" and the great
Civil War elegies, as well as such commonly overlooked poems as
"Song of the Broad-Axe" and "Song of the Banner at Daybreak."
Disseminating Whitman reveals as no previous study has done the
poet's fervent engagement with the most highly charged political
questions of his day-questions of defining and regulating whole
ranges of experiences and desires that remain the subject of
intense political conflict in our own time. This radical
reassessment of the "good gray" poet makes a definitive
contribution to critical work in American history and literature,
poetry, and gender studies.
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