Lexington Books
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978-1-4985-7443-3 • Hardback • May 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
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Deborah R. Geis is professor of English at DePauw University.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One. The Hungry Yawp: Eating and Orality in Whitman and Ginsberg
Chapter Two. The Politics of Gluttony in Second-Generation Holocaust Literature
Chapter Three. Chukla Bukla: Cooking, Bengali-Indian-Anglo-American Writers, and the Merging of Cultures
Chapter Four. Feeding the Audience: Food, Feminism, and Performance Art
Chapter Five. The Last Black Man’s Fried Chicken: Soul Food, Memory, and African American Culinary Writing
Chapter Six. Cooking Up a Storm: Recent Food Memoirs and the Angry Daughter
Chapter Seven. Eat and Run: Food Writing, Masculinity, and the “Male Midlife Crisis”
Chapter Eight. School Lunch: Bicultural Conflicts in Asian-American Women’s Food Memoirs
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Deborah R. Geis expands our understanding of the literature of food, both in terms of genre and of methods to approach a portion of food writing. Her delicate explication of food memoir and performance art through lenses of gender, race, and migration melds with treatment of more traditional texts of fiction and poetry to yield a deeply empathetic contemplation about food’s personal and political resonance.
— Miriam Mara, Arizona State University