{"product_id":"racial-indigestion-eating-bodies-in-the-19th-century-paperback","title":"Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKyla Wazana Tompkins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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. \u003ci\u003eRacial Indigestion\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003e Racial Indigestion\u003c\/i\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, \u003ci\u003eRacial Indigestion \u003c\/i\u003esheds 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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 30, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53052746367200,"sku":"9780814770030","price":74.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/tZLXZ-VOVN9780814770030.webp?v=1781284895","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/racial-indigestion-eating-bodies-in-the-19th-century-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}