Literary and cultural production, world-ecology, and the global food system. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Chris Campbell, Michael Niblett, Kerstin Oloff.
• Editors: Campbell, Chris (Chris C.); Niblett, Michael; Oloff, Kerstin
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Plotting the Crisis—World-Literature, World-Culture, and the World-Food-SystemPart I Imperial Appetites and the Development of the World-Food-System2. Eat Meat Crave Repeat: H. Rider Haggard, Lost World Romance and the Global Growth of Britain's Meat Markets3. Pain, Pleasure, and the World-Food-System: Plotting the Afterlife of the Plantation in the Poetry of Grace Nichols4. "The Landscape Heaved with Unspeakable Terror": The Weird Presence of the World-Food-System in the Cultural Imaginaries of England and the CaribbeanPart II Cash-Crops and Agricultural Monarchs5. Laurie Lee in Cyprus: Scripting Propaganda, Productivity, and Peasant Labour6. Plants in the Free World Garden: Revolution and Rice in Thai Literature7. Fleeing Ilex Paraguariensis: Yerba Mate Plantations in Horacio Quiroga and Augusto Roa Bastos8. "To win the energies of intoxication for the revolution": Dialectical Aesthetics in Miguel Ángel Asturias' Banana Trilogy (1950–1960)Part III Consumed by Crisis9. Alimentary Gothic: Horror, Puerto Rico and the World-Food-System10. Made in Cod's Image: Food, Fuel, and World-Ecological Decline in Michael Crummey's Sweetland11. White Flight from Planet Earth: Reading Race, Cheap Food, and Capitalism's Crisis State in Interstellar.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 809.933559; Food in literature; Food in popular culture; Food industry and trade in literature; Food industry and trade in popular culture; Literature -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030761554
• Related ISBNs: 9783030761547
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