Global Appetites

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"This literary study explores how agribusiness, industrial agriculture, and countercultural food movements underpin modern American conceptions of global power"-- "Global Appetites explores how industrial agriculture and countercultural food movements underpin U.S. 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"--

subjects: Cather, willa, 1873-1947,  Morrison, toni, 1931-,  Food in literature,  American literature, history and criticism, 20th century,  American literature, women authors,  Agricultural industries,  Industries, united states,  Globalization,  Authorship,  Agriculture in literature,  American literature,  History and criticism,  Criticism and interpretation,  LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors,  Women authors,  Food writing,  LITERARY CRITICISM