{"product_id":"9780814770054","title":"Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes the object being eaten. At the same time, eating performs a kind of vulnerability to the world, revealing a fundamental interdependence between the eater and that which exists outside her body. \u003cem\u003eRacial Indigestion \u003c\/em\u003eexplores the links between food, visual and literary culture in the nineteenth-century United States to reveal how eating produces political subjects by justifying the social discourses that create bodily meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombing through a visually stunning and rare archive of children’s literature, architectural history, domestic manuals, dietetic tracts, novels and advertising, \u003cem\u003eRacial Indigestion\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of the consolidation of nationalist mythologies of whiteness via the erotic politics of consumption. Less a history of commodities than a history of eating itself, the book seeks to understand how eating became a political act, linked to appetite, vice, virtue, race and class inequality and, finally, the queer pleasures and pitfalls of a burgeoning commodity culture. In so doing, \u003cem\u003eRacial Indigestion \u003c\/em\u003esheds light on contemporary “foodie” culture’s vexed relationship to nativism, nationalism and race privilege.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128629018864,"sku":"9780814770054","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814770054_p0.jpg?v=1763749192","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814770054","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}