Global Appetites
American Power and the Literature of Food
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Word Count
65,000 words, Guess
Page Count
260 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28493709M
- ISBN-139781107032828
- OCLC Control Number807768721
- OCLC Control Numberglobalappetitesa0000carr
- Library of Congress Control Number2012031891
Classifications
- LCCPS228.A52 C37 2013
Description
"This literary study explores how agribusiness, industrial agriculture, and countercultural food movements underpin modern American conceptions of global power"-- "Global Appetites explores how industrial agriculture and countercultural food movements underpin U.S. conceptions of global power in the century since the First World War. Allison Carruth's study centers on what she terms the "literature of food"--A body of work that comprises literary realism, late modernism, and magical realism along with culinary writing, food memoir, and advertising"--
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