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American Power and the Literature of Paperback
Food
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AUTHOR: Allison Carruth, University of California, Hardback, eBook
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DATE PUBLISHED: April 2017
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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. Through analysis of American texts ranging from Willa Cather's novel O Pioneers! (1913) to Novella
Carpenter's nonfiction work Farm City (2009), Carruth argues that stories about how the United States cultivates, distributes,
and consumes food imbue it with the power to transform social and ecological systems around the world. Lively and
accessible, this interdisciplinary study will appeal to scholars of American literature and culture as well as those working in
the fields of food studies, food policy, agriculture history, social justice, and the environmental humanities.

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DATE PUBLISHED: April 2017 DIMENSIONS: 230 x 153 x 15 mm
FORMAT: Paperback WEIGHT: 0.41kg
ISBN: 9781316613306 CONTAINS: 12 b/w illus.
LENGTH: 260 pages AVAILABILITY: Available

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