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Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century - America and the Long 19th Century
Kyla Wazana Tompkins
Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century - America and the Long 19th Century
Kyla Wazana Tompkins
Explores the links between food, visual and literary culture. This book tells the story of the consolidation of nationalist mythologies of whiteness via the erotic politics of consumption and also combines through a visually stunning and rare archive of children's literature, architectural history, domestic manuals, dietetic tracts, and novels.
288 pages, colour plates
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | July 30, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9780814770030 |
Publishers | New York University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Dimensions | 229 × 155 × 22 mm · 514 g |
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