Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Kaufman, Alexander L.; Vlagopoulos, Penny

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that food and feasting moments in modern outlaw tales illuminate that which bonds all humans, and it examines ways in which food and feasting are often used to note difference, create discord, and manipulate power dynamics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429592119
• Artikelnr.: 56835028

Autorenporträt

Alexander L. Kaufman is the Reed D. Voran Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Ball State University, where he teaches in the Honors College. Penny Vlagopoulos is Assistant Professor of English at St. Lawrence University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. "Bred up a Butcher": The Meat Trade and Its Connection
Criminality in Eighteenth-Century England 2. The Fare of "Sanguinary
Devils": Feast and Storytelling in The Life and Adventures of Joaquin
Murieta 3. "I'd Dream of Feasts": Reading Southworth's The Hidden Hand as a
Dual Outlaw Narrative 4. Breaking Bad While Baking Bread: The Cereal
Politics of Belle Starr's Outlaw Reputation 5. The Twentieth-Century
American Outlaw Feast: Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test 6. Food
Fight!: Excess and Deficiency in National Lampoon's Animal House 7.
Post-Apocalyptic Outlaws: Weaponizing Food and Community in Cormac
McCarthy's The Road and Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games 8. Succulent
Texts: Desire, Outlaws, and Consumption in Popular Romance