{"product_id":"racial-indigestion-eating-bodies-in-the-19th-century-hardcover","title":"Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKyla Wazana Tompkins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2013 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2013 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 fundamental interdependence between the eater and that which exists outside her body. \u003cem\u003eRacial Indigestion \u003c\/em\u003eexplores the links between food, visual and literary culture in the nineteenth-century United States to reveal how eating produces political subjects by justifying the social discourses that create bodily meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Combing through a visually stunning and rare archive of children's literature, architectural history, domestic manuals, dietetic tracts, novels and advertising, \u003cem\u003eRacial Indigestion\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of the consolidation of nationalist mythologies of whiteness via the erotic politics of consumption. Less a history of commodities than a history of eating itself, the book seeks to understand how eating became a political act, linked to appetite, vice, virtue, race and class inequality and, finally, the queer pleasures and pitfalls of a burgeoning commodity culture. In so doing, \u003cem\u003eRacial Indigestion \u003c\/em\u003esheds light on contemporary \"foodie\" culture's vexed relationship to nativism, nationalism and race privilege.\u003c\/p\u003e For more, visit the author's tumblr page: http: \/\/racialindigestion.tumblr.com\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNormal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\\: *{behavior: url(#ieooui) } \/* Style Definitions *\/ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name: \"Table Normal\"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow: yes; mso-style-parent: \"\"; mso-padding-alt:0pt 5.4pt 0pt 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family: \"Times New Roman\";} \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKyla Wazana Tompkins\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women's Studies at Pomona College. She is a former journalist and restaurant critic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.97 x 9.31 x 6.09 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 30, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130496127111,"sku":"9780814770023","price":192.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ec679eb3ee3217a6a0c2fedafb385a8b_1f855b7f-0e0a-4c00-927b-eb769f7aa8da.webp?v=1732611296","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/racial-indigestion-eating-bodies-in-the-19th-century-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}