(In)digestion in Literature and Film

A Transcultural Approach

Serena J. Rivera, Niki Kiviat

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Routledge
05 May 2020

Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Food & society; Media studies

Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

"(In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach is a collection of essays spanning diverse geographic areas such as Brazil, Eastern Europe, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States. Despite this geographic variance, they all question disordered eating practices represented in literary and filmic works. The collection ultimately redefines disorder, removing the pathology and stigma assigned to acts of non-normative eating. In so doing, the essays deem taboo practices of food consumption, rejection and avoidance as expressions of resistance and defiance in the face of restrictive sociocultural, political, and economic normativities. As a result, disorder no longer equates to ""out of order"", implying a sense of brokenness, but is instead envisioned as an act against the dominant of order of operations. The collection therefore shifts critical focus from the eater as the embodiment of disorder to the problematic norms that defines behaviors as such."

Edited by: Serena J. Rivera, Niki Kiviat
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367443078
ISBN 10: 0367443074
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 05 May 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Introduction Section One: Theoretical and Formal Contours Suckling Pig or Potatoes? Class Politics and Food Symbolism in Eastern European Film Elena Popan Haptic for Gourmets: Cinema, Gastronomy, and Strategic Exoticism in Eat Drink Man Woman and Tortilla Soup Aida Roldán-García Pro-Ana and Mia Blogs and Care of the Self Jenny Platz Section Two: Disordered Eating Beyond the West White Pigs and Black Pigs, Wild Boar and Monkey Meat: Cannibalism and War Victimhood in Japanese Cinema Kenta McGrath ""Such a Thin Slice of Watermelon!"" Fat and Thin in Macabéa’s Malnourished World Benjamin Legg Multiplicities of Identities and Meanings Behind Devouring Characters in Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away Katsuya Izumi The Dangerous Vegan: Han Kang’s The Vegetarian and the Anti-Feminist Rhetoric of Disordered Eating Laura Wright Section Three: Disordered Eating in the West Dietary Perversions and Subversion of Nature in Huysmans’s Against Nature Romain Peter Eating the Dead: Transgressive Hungers and the Grotesque Body in Ulysses Wilson Taylor Hungry for Honey: Desire in Dacia Maraini’s Il treno per Helsinki Eilis Kierans ""Identica a loro?"": (In)digesting Food and Identity in Igiaba Scego’s ""Salsicce"" Francesca Calamita From Bartholomew Fair to Bridesmaids: Ben Jonson’s Fecopoetics and Gendered American Pop Culture Emily Gruber Keck"

"Niki Kiviat is a PhD candidate in Italian Studies at Columbia University, where her research interests include food studies; Italy’s food and material culture as manifest in films of the Economic Miracle; star studies; and the legacy of neorealist film, which was the subject of her Master’s thesis, also from Columbia. Her essay, ""From Pizzaiola to Phenom: Viewing Sophia Loren Through Food,"" will be published in the edited volume Eve’s Sinful Bite: Foodscapes in Italian Women’s Writing, Culture, and Society (forthcoming, Bloomsbury). Serena J. Rivera is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh where she teaches the language, literatures and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world. Her research interests concern the intersections of food, gender, race, and sexuality throughout Luso/Hispanophone cultural production. She has published on the topics of food metaphors in Mozambican and Cape Verdean literatures as well as the teaching of Portuguese language in the US. She has also translated Alberto Pena-Rodriguez’s News on the American Dream: A History of the Portuguese Press in the United States (forthcoming, Tagus Press). She is currently working on several article manuscripts that explore the use of food in (post)colonial nationalist rhetoric in Mozambique as well as the linkages between the abject and racial identity in late-nineteenth/early-twentieth century Brazilian literature. Her monograph project comparatively examines the intersections of masculinity, food, and nation in Brazilian, Cape Verdean and Mozambican literatures."