You are What You Eat: Literary Probes into the Palate - Hardcover

Annette M. Magid

9781847184924: You are What You Eat: Literary Probes into the Palate

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847184928 ISBN 13: 9781847184924

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008

You are What You Eat: Literary Probes into the Palate offers tantalizing essays immersed in the culture of food, expanded across genres, disciplines, and time. The entire collection of You Are What You Eat includes a diversity of approaches and foci from multicultural national and international scholars and has a broad spectrum of subjects including: feminist theory, domesticity, children, film, cultural history, patriarchal gender ideology, mothering ideology, queer theory, politics, and poetry. Essays include studies of food-related works by John Milton, Emily Dickinson, Fay Weldon, Kenneth Grahame, Roald Dahl, Shel Silverstein, J. K. Rowling, Mother Goose, John Updike, Maxine Hong Kingston, Alice Walker, Amy Tan, Louise Erdrich, Amanda Hesser, Julie Powell, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Martin Scorsese, Bob Giraldi, Clarice Lispector, José Antônio Garcia, Fran Ross, and Gish Hen. The topic addresses a range of interests appealing to diverse audiences, expanding from college students to food enthusiasts and scholars.

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About the Author:

Annette Magid, a tenured English professor at SUNY Erie Community College, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A., teaches Childrens Literature, Science Fiction, Poetry, Creative Writing, Drama, Short Story, and Business Writing. Her publications include articles on Edward Bellamy, Williams Morris, and Fritz Lang in several International Utopian Studies journals. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of journals. She has won several poetry honors including National Poetry Awards. Her book, Tunnel of Stone (2002) was published by Mellen Poetry Press. She edited, Women of Accomplishment (2001), published by Pan Am Womens Pavilion, Buffalo, NY., and she edited seven volumes of Sci Fi Stories (1999-2007), written by her students and published by SUNY Erie Community College. At NeMLA Conventions she has served as Local Coordinator (2000 and 2008), chaired and presented papers for many panels including Food for Thought, Creative Writing-Poetry, Pedagogy, Sci-Fi Feminist Theory, and Two-Year College issues. She has also presented papers at the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association, the Utopian Society, the International Utopian Society, and the New York College Learning Skills Association.

Review:

"You are What You Eat: Literary Probes into the Palate offers the whole spectrum of scientific methods of literary research, from gender studies to political readings and poetical theory. The diversity of methods meets the variety of media; films and novels are dealt with equally. In a comprehensive way, different phases of literature and various cultural areas are taken into view. Eating as a 'fait social total' (Marcel Mauss) is researched thoroughly, thus producing a complete picture of the different social, political, cultural and gender specific implications of eating for modern society." - Professor Karin Becker, PhD, Author of Ecritures du repas. Fragments d'un discours gastro-nomique; University of Munster, Germany "... the essays provide a diversity of topics and approaches ..." - Barbara Kelly, The Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin, 22, no. 1 May/June 2010

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