{"product_id":"racial-indigestion-eating-bodies-in-the-19th-century-9780814770030","title":"Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2013 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2013 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart of the American Literatures Initiative Series \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\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. Racial Indigestion explores 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombing through a visually stunning and rare archive of children's literature, architectural history, domestic manuals, dietetic tracts, novels and advertising, Racial Indigestion 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, Racial Indigestion sheds light on contemporary \"foodie\" culture's vexed relationship to nativism, nationalism and race privilege. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more, visit the author's tumblr page: http: \/\/racialindigestion.tumblr.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kyla Wazana Tompkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/30\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814770030\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKyla Wazana Tompkins\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor and Chair of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo, and Professor of English at Pomona College. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eRacial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e and managing editor of \u003ci\u003eKeywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies.\u003c\/i\u003e She is the winner of numerous book awards; in 2023, she won a James Beard Award for her essay \"On Boba,\" published in the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43150674722931,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":61.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_ff5f75c2-c47d-47b2-88f4-2a51be059e61.jpg?v=1750769438","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/racial-indigestion-eating-bodies-in-the-19th-century-9780814770030","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}