{"product_id":"read-my-plate-9781498574457","title":"Read My Plate","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether perusing a recipe or learning what a literary character eats, readers approach a text differently when reading about food. Read My Plate: The Literature of Food explores what narrators and characters (in fiction, in performance, and in the popular genre of the food memoir) cook and eat. Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, the inmates of the Terezin concentration camp, performance artist Karen Finley, novelist Jhumpa Lahiri, playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, and the celebrated chef-turned-travel-journalist Anthony Bourdain are just a few examples of the writers whose works are discussed. Close readings of the literal and figurative plates in these texts allow a unique form of intimate access to the speakers' feelings and memories and helps readers to understand more about how the dynamics of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and social class affect what the narrators\/characters eat, from tourtière to collard greens to a school lunch bento box.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeborah R. Geis expands our understanding of the literature of food, both in terms of genre and of methods to approach a portion of food writing. Her delicate explication of food memoir and performance art through lenses of gender, race, and migration melds with treatment of more traditional texts of fiction and poetry to yield a deeply empathetic contemplation about food’s personal and political resonance. -- Miriam Mara, Arizona State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter One. The Hungry Yawp: Eating and Orality in Whitman and Ginsberg \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two. The Politics of Gluttony in Second-Generation Holocaust Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three. Chukla Bukla: Cooking, Bengali-Indian-Anglo-American Writers, and the Merging of Cultures \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four. Feeding the Audience: Food, Feminism, and Performance Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five. The Last Black Man’s Fried Chicken: Soul Food, Memory, and African American Culinary Writing \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six. Cooking Up a Storm: Recent Food Memoirs and the Angry Daughter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven. Eat and Run: Food Writing, Masculinity, and the “Male Midlife Crisis”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eight. School Lunch: Bicultural Conflicts in Asian-American Women’s Food Memoirs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040817742167,"sku":"9781498574457","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498574457.jpg?v=1750947947","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/read-my-plate-9781498574457","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}