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Artificial color : modern food and racial fictions / Catherine Keyser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keyser, Catherine, 1980- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food in literature.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Food habits in literature.
- Race in literature.
- White people--Race identity--In literature.
- White people.
- Ethnicity in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- "Purple fluid, carbon-charged": Jean Toomer's mutable materials
- Genius in the raw: the Schuyler family and the modern mulatta
- Eating like a local: Stein, Hemingway, and the stakes of terroir
- "A beaker full of the warm south": the Fitzgeralds and mediterranean infusions
- The monstropolous beast: animacy and industry in Zora Neale Hurston and Dorothy West.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-067315-X
- 0-19-067313-3
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