Food and Culture in Contemporary American Fiction

by Lorna Piatti-Farnell

Book Overview

Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Food Studies and American literary scholarship, Piatti-Farnell investigates the significances of food and eating in American fiction, from 1980 to the present day. She argues that culturally-coded representations of the culinary illuminate contemporary American anxieties about class gender, race, tradition, immigration, nationhood, and history. As she offers a critical analysis of major works...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415884225
• ISBN13: 9780415884228
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.1"