Food and Culture in Contemporary American Fiction
Lorna Piatti-Farnell
ISBN: | 9781136645532 |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Published: | 26 July, 2011 |
Format: | eBook |
Food and Culture in Contemporary American Fiction
Lorna Piatti-Farnell
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 of contemporary fiction, Piatti-Farnell unveils con
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