Literary and cultural production, world-ecology, and the global food system

Literary and cultural production, world-ecology, and the global food system / edited by Chris Campbell, Michael Niblett, Kerstin Oloff.

Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System marks a significant intervention into the field of literary food studies. Drawing on new work in world literature, cultural studies, and environmental studies, the essays gathered here explore how literary and cultural texts...

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Other Authors: Campbell, Chris (Chris C.) (Editor), Niblett, Michael (Editor), Oloff, Kerstin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Series:Literatures, cultures, and the environment.
Subjects:
Food in literature.
Food in popular culture.
Food industry and trade in literature.
Food industry and trade in popular culture.
Literature > History and criticism.
Food in literature
Food in popular culture
Literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Plotting the CrisisWorld-Literature, World-Culture, and the World-Food-System
  • Part I Imperial Appetites and the Development of the World-Food-System
  • 2. Eat Meat Crave Repeat: H. Rider Haggard, Lost World Romance and the Global Growth of Britains Meat Markets
  • 3. Pain, Pleasure, and the World-Food-System: Plotting the Afterlife of the Plantation in the Poetry of Grace Nichols
  • 4. "The Landscape Heaved with Unspeakable Terror": The Weird Presence of the World-Food-System in the Cultural Imaginaries of England and the Caribbean
  • Part II Cash-Crops and Agricultural Monarchs
  • 5. Laurie Lee in Cyprus: Scripting Propaganda, Productivity, and Peasant Labour
  • 6. Plants in the Free World Garden: Revolution and Rice in Thai Literature
  • 7. Fleeing Ilex Paraguariensis: Yerba Mate Plantations in Horacio Quiroga and Augusto Roa Bastos
  • 8. "To win the energies of intoxication for the revolution": Dialectical Aesthetics in Miguel Angel Asturias Banana Trilogy (19501960)
  • Part III Consumed by Crisis
  • 9. Alimentary Gothic: Horror, Puerto Rico and the World-Food-System
  • 10. Made in Cods Image: Food, Fuel, and World-Ecological Decline in Michael Crummeys Sweetland
  • 11. White Flight from Planet Earth: Reading Race, Cheap Food, and Capitalisms Crisis State in Interstellar.

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