Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century

by Kyla Wazana Tompkins

Book Overview

Winner of the 2013 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association

Winner of the 2013 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series

The act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes the object being eaten. At the same time, eating performs a kind of vulnerability to the world, revealing a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814770037
• ISBN13: 9780814770030
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"