Food and Literature

This volume examines food as subject form landscape polemic and aesthetic statement in literature. With essays analyzing food and race queer food intoxicated poets avant-garde food writing vegetarianism the recipe the supermarket food comics and vampiric eating this collection brings together fascinating work from leading scholars in the field. It is the first volume to offer an overview of literary food studies and reflect on its origins developments and applications. Taking up maxims such as ''we are what we eat'' it traces the origins of literary food studies and examines key questions in cultural texts from different global literary traditions. It charts the trajectories of the field in relation to work in critical race studies postcolonial studies and children''s literature positing an omnivorous method for the field at large.