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Racial indigestion : eating bodies in the 19th century / Kyla Wazana Tompkins.

"The 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. Racial Indigestion explores the...

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Main Author: Tompkins, Kyla Wazana
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©2012.
Series:America and the long 19th century.
Subjects:
Graham, Sylvester, > 1794-1851.
Alcott, Louisa May, > 1832-1888 > Criticism and interpretation.
Food habits > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Diet > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Cooking > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Human body > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Food in literature.
Alcott, Louisa May, > 1832-1888.
Cooking > Social aspects.
Diet > Social aspects.
Food habits > Social aspects.
Human body > Social aspects.
Race relations.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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