Artificial color : modern food and racial fictions /

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This text examines how modern US writers used the changing geographies, regimens, and technologies of modern food to reimagine racial classification and to question its relationship to the mutable body. By challenging a cultural ideal of purity, this literature proposes that racial whiteness is perh...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Keyser, Catherine
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Zusammenfassung:
This text examines how modern US writers used the changing geographies, regimens, and technologies of modern food to reimagine racial classification and to question its relationship to the mutable body. By challenging a cultural ideal of purity, this literature proposes that racial whiteness is perhaps the most artificial colour of them all.
Umfang:
1 online resource (233 pages)
Anmerkungen:
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Zielpublikum:
Specialized.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-067315-X
0-19-067313-3
Schlagworte:
Food in literature.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Food habits in literature.
Race in literature.
White people > Race identity > In literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
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