1st Edition
Food and Culture in Contemporary American Fiction
By Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Copyright 2011
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.... Read more
Introduction 1. Home and Away 2. Regionality 3. Race and History 4. Immigrant Identities Conclusion
Biography
Lorna Piatti-Farnell is a lecturer in Communication Studies at AUT University, Auckland. Her main research interests include cultural history, twentieth century literature, film studies, animation, advertising and Gothic fiction. She specializes in food scholarship and has published on several aspects of culinary studies, including history, fiction, advertising and memoirs.
