Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales

<p>This collection of scholarly essays presents new work from an emerging line of inquiry: modern outlaw narratives and the textual and cultural relevance of food and feasting. Food its preparation and its consumption is presented in outlaw narratives as central points of human interaction community conflict and fellowship. Feast scenes perform a wide variety of functions serving as cultural repositories of manners and behaviors catalysts for adventure or moments of regrouping and redirecting narratives. The book argues that modern outlaw narratives illuminate a potent cross-cultural need for freedom solidarity and justice and it examines ways in which food and feasting are often used to legitimate difference create discord and manipulate power dynamics.</p>