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Global appetites : American power and the literature of food by Allison Carruth is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Global appetites : American power and the literature of food about?

"Global Appetites explores how industrial agriculture and countercultural food movements underpin US conceptions of global power in the century since the First World War. Allison Carruth's study centers on what she terms the 'literature of food' -- a body of work that comprises literary realism, late modernism and magical realism along with culinary writing, food memoir and advertising. Through analysis of American texts ranging from Willa Cather's novel O Pioneers! (1913) to Novella Carpenter's non-fiction work Farm City (2009), Carruth argues that stories about how the United States cultivates, distributes and consumes food imbue it with the power to transform social and ecological systems around the world. Lively and accessible, this interdisciplinary study will appeal to scholars of American literature and culture as well as those working in the fields of food studies, food policy, agriculture history, social justice and the environmental humanities"--Provided by publisher

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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Allison Carruth
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9781107327054
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, History, Humanities
Rating
3.25 / 5 (4 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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