Eating America: Crisis, Sustenance, Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9783631646625 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 304 str.

Justyna Kociatkiewicz;Laura Suchostawska;Dominika Ferens

Opis

This volume of essays examines the relationship between eating and crisis. The United States long-lasting economic and cultural hegemony raises a number of questions: Has America been literally and metaphorically eating, appropriating, exploiting, and molding the world in its own image, or has it been eaten, appropriated, and exploited as a (frequently criticized or disdained) source of ideas, ideology, and knowledge? What is the relation between the current ecological crisis and America s consumerist economy, with its practices of food production and consumption, and its use of natural resources? What is America s role in the ongoing crisis of modernity? And, if the crisis continues, where are the sources of sustenance?"

Spis treści

Contents: Tomasz Basiuk: Tarte aux pommes, or, Delicacies Morally Good for You - Malgorzata Poks: Voluntary Simplicity and Voluntary Poverty: Alternatives to Consumer Culture - Aneta Dybska: The Battle over Squash and Beans: Food Justice Activism in a Polarized City - Justyna Wierzchowska: Consuming the Artist, Consuming the Image: Marina Abramovic 2001 MOCA Gala Controversy - Zofia Kolbuszewska: An Abject Guide to America: CSI Lab Autopsy and Stomach Contents as an (Ironic) Index of Interiorizing the Global and the Local - Agata Zarzycka: Unhappy Meals: Fast Food and the Crisis of the Underground in American Goth-themed Fiction and Graphic Novels - Oskar Zasada: Devouring Heroism: An Archetype Crisis in American Pop Culture - Elisabeth A. Frost: Performing Witness: The New Documentary Poetics - Jacek Partyka: Writing of Crisis and Crisis of Writing: Charles Reznikoff's Testimony (1934) - Joseph Kuhn: The Pale Horseman: Crisis in the Fiction of Katherine Anne Porter - Marta Kova: Indigestible America and the Crisis of Multiculturalism in Aleksandar Hemon's Fiction - Anna Gilarek: Humanity in Crisis: Man-made Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood - Dominika Bugno-Narecka: Food (and) War in Gravity's Rainbow - Agnieszka Kaczmarek: Eating Itself to Death: The USA as Seen by McCarthy and Twain - Paulina Ambrozy: «Resistance Is the Opposite of Escape»: Still Life as Sustenance in the Poems of Wallace Stevens and Gertrude Stein - Veronika Hofstätter: «Twas very hard to get down their filthy trash»: Investigating Food and Crisis in Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative (1682) - Malgorzata Martynuska: Consuming Latinidad: Mexican Foodways in Maria Ripoll's Tortilla Soup (2001) - Jerzy Kamionowski: «Steam-driven cannibals ... claim us flesh eaters,- wish we were»: Black Sustainability through the Voice in African American Poetry on the Middle Passage - Laura Suchostawska: Thoreau and the Indians, or a Crisis of the American Ideals of the Wild and Wilderness - Francesca de Lucia: Marching through Wilderness: Relating to the Environment in an Italian American Perspective - Dominika Ferens: Between Taste and Interest: Reading Asian American Literature in the Age of Food Literacy.

O autorze

Justyna Kociatkiewicz, Laura Suchostawska and Dominika Ferens are associate professors at the University of Wroclaw (Poland). Their fields of interest include contemporary American novel, conspiracy theory and narrative theories; cognitive linguistics and poetics as well as eco-linguistics; and American minority literatures, theories of race, gender and sexuality respectively.