On the Visceral (Part One): Race, Sex and Other Gut Feelings - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822368161 ISBN 13: 9780822368168

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2014

Synopsis

Using the gut as a starting point, this special issue focuses on the idea of the visceral as a trope for the carnal and bloody logic that organizes life. It brings together scholars working in food studies, American studies, sexuality and queer studies, and critical race theory who are keen not only to understand patterns of bodily production and consumption but also to propose new theoretical scaffoldings for our understanding of the intersection of race, food, the human, and the animal. These essays highlight the moments, texts, and processes that link food, flesh, and the alimentary tract to systems of pleasure—as well as to historical and political systems of inequality. The contributors seek to unearth structures of feeling, sensing, and embodiment that have been obscured either by colonialist historiography or political prejudice.

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About the Author

Sharon Holland is Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University. She graduated from Princeton University and holds a PhD in English and African American Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity and co-author of Crossing Waters/Crossing Worlds.

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0822368161
• ISBN 13: 9780822368168
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Ochoa Marcia, Holland Sharon Patricia, Tompkins Kyla Wazana