Food Cultures Across Time : Flavours and Endeavours

Food Cultures Across Time : Flavours and Endeavours /

This volume explores the intricacies and complexities of food, and maps food cultures and food routes in fiction, by analysing consumption-related matters in the literary and cultural endeavours of authors from countries as diverse as Ireland, Romania, the UK, and the USA. The topics addressed in th...

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Other Authors: Iancu, Anca-Luminiţa (Editor), Mitrea, Alexandra (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2021.
Subjects:
Food in literature.
Food habits.
Feeding Behavior
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • A Feast of Fiction
  • The Curious Diet of Characters in Anne Enright's Novels
  • Spaces of Bonding
  • The Intersections of Food, Race and Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri's Fiction
  • Food-Memory Language
  • A Sign of Life
  • The Vividness of Hunger in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing and Herta Müller's Atemschaukel
  • Figs, Rotten Medlars, Man-Eaters and Tub Dieters
  • Eating Images and Making History
  • Culinary Lexis in Eighteenth-Century Dictionaries
  • Culinary Hybridity and Linguistic Hotchpotch on the Menus of the 2019 European Region of Gastronomy

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