Tasting difference : food, race, and cultural encounters in early modern literature / Gitanjali G. Shahani.
2020
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Title
Tasting difference : food, race, and cultural encounters in early modern literature / Gitanjali G. Shahani.
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Copyright
©2020
Description
xii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Summary
"Examines the colonial histories of everyday foods like sugar, spices, and coffee, arguing that it is in the writing on food and eating that we see among the earliest configurations of racial difference"-- Provided by publisher.
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Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Spices : "the spicèd Indian air" in Shakespeare's England
Sugar : "so sweet was ne'er so fatal"
Coffee : eating Othello, drinking coffee
Bizarre foods : food, filth, and the foreign in the culinary contact zone
Cannibal foods : "powdered wife" and other tales of English cannibalism.
Sugar : "so sweet was ne'er so fatal"
Coffee : eating Othello, drinking coffee
Bizarre foods : food, filth, and the foreign in the culinary contact zone
Cannibal foods : "powdered wife" and other tales of English cannibalism.
Call number
PR428.F66 S53 2020