Leftovers : eating, drinking and re-thinking with case studies from post-war French fiction / Ruth Cruickshank.
"Eating and drinking are essential to survival. Yet for human animals, they are intrinsically ambivalent, proliferating with ideological, historical and psychological leftovers. This study reveals and mobilizes the provisional meanings, repressed experiences and unacknowledged tensions bound up...
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Contemporary French and francophone cultures ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : tapping the critical potential of representations of eating and drinking
- (Re-)Thinking with eating and drinking
- Re-thinking the story : food, drink and interpretation in Alan Robbe-Grillet's Les Gommes/The erasers
- Feeding and reading ambivalence : incorporating difference in Annie Ernaux's Les Armoires vides/Cleaned out
- Food questioning values in Marie Darrieussecq's Truismes/Pig tales
- Weighing up the potential of literary consumption : feeding on scraps in Michel Houellebeca's La Carte et le territoire/The map and the territory
- Conclusion : taking on leftovers.