{"product_id":"leftovers-eating-drinking-and-re-thinking-with-case-studies-from-post-war-french-fiction-9781802077520","title":"Leftovers: Eating, Drinking and Re-thinking with","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEating 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 with representations of food, drink and their consumption. It creates a flexible critical framework by bringing together an unexploited convergence of post-war French thinkers who use – or whose thought is legible through – figures of eating and drinking, including Barthes, Bataille, Beauvoir, Bourdieu, Certeau, Cixous, Derrida, Fischler, Giard, Kristeva, Lacan, Lefebvre, Lévi-Strauss, Mayol and Sartre.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNew combinations emerge for elucidating the intersecting effects of incorporation; constructs of class, gender and racial difference; bad faith; distinction; secondary ideological signifying systems; provisional meanings bound up with linguistic traces; economies of excess; everyday ‘making-do’; the ethics of consuming the other; the return of the repressed; lack; abjection; and notions of ‘eating on the sly’, ‘mother’s milk’, the ‘omnivore’s paradox’ and ‘gastro-anomie’.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe vast possibilities for re-thinking with eating and drinking are further exemplified in case studies of novels in which – often beyond authorial intentions – food and drink are structurally important and interpretatively plural. These are Robbe-Grillet’s\u003ci\u003e Les Gommes\/The Erasers\u003c\/i\u003e (1953); Ernaux’s \u003ci\u003eLes Armoires vides\/Cleaned Out\u003c\/i\u003e (1974); Darrieussecq’s\u003ci\u003e Truismes\/Pig Tales\u003c\/i\u003e (1996); and Houellebecq’s\u003ci\u003e La Carte et le territoire\/The Map and the Territory\u003c\/i\u003e (2010). New understandings of post-war French cultural production are revealed in these case studies. But above all, the analyses demonstrate the potential for literary, comparative, cultural, film, gender and food studies of re-thinking with eating and drinking across genres, periods and places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The discussion in this book engages with and extends current debates in its field but more importantly the deployment of the trope of ‘leftovers’ as an analytical tool is really innovative and exciting.' \u003cbr\u003eKathryn Robson, Newcastle University\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The wide-ranging implications of food and drink that Cruickshank analyzes make this book essential reading for all students and scholars.' \u003cbr\u003e Jennifer L. Holm, \u003cem\u003e Gastronomica\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction – Tapping the Critical Potential of Representations of Eating and Drinking\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 – (Re-)Thinking with Eating and Drinking\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 – Re-thinking the Story: Food, Drink and Interpretation in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s\u003ci\u003e Les Gommes\/The Erasers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 – Feeding and Reading Ambivalence: Incorporating Difference in Annie Ernaux’s \u003ci\u003eLes Armoires vides\/Cleaned Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 – Food Questioning Values in Marie Darrieussecq’s \u003ci\u003eTruismes\/Pig Tales\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 – Weighing up the Potential of Literary Consumption: Feeding on Scraps in Michel Houellebecq’s \u003ci\u003eLa Carte et le territoire\/The Map and the Territory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion – Taking Leftovers On\u003cbr\u003eBibliography","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470083854679,"sku":"9781802077520","price":29.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781802077520.jpg?v=1744897372","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/leftovers-eating-drinking-and-re-thinking-with-case-studies-from-post-war-french-fiction-9781802077520","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}