Catherine Keyser is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and the author of Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture (Rutgers University Press 2010).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: "Purple Fluid, Carbon-Charged": Jean Toomer's Mutable MaterialsChapter 2: Genius in the Raw: The Schuyler Family and the Modern MulattaChapter 3: Eating Like a Local: Stein, Hemingway, and the Stakes of TerroirChapter 4: "A Beaker Full of the Warm South": The Fitzgeralds and Mediterranean InfusionsChapter 5: The Monstropolous Beast: Animacy and Industry in Zora Neale Hurston and Dorothy WestNotesIndex

In Artificial Color, Catherine Keyser makes visible how race is constructed in American literature in the first half of the twentieth century through references to and depictions of food. Keyser's reading of well- and lesser known-as well as unpublished-texts is precise, engaging, and ultimately very satisfying.

Catherine Keyser is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and the author of Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture (Rutgers University Press 2010).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: "Purple Fluid, Carbon-Charged": Jean Toomer's Mutable MaterialsChapter 2: Genius in the Raw: The Schuyler Family and the Modern MulattaChapter 3: Eating Like a Local: Stein, Hemingway, and the Stakes of TerroirChapter 4: "A Beaker Full of the Warm South": The Fitzgeralds and Mediterranean InfusionsChapter 5: The Monstropolous Beast: Animacy and Industry in Zora Neale Hurston and Dorothy WestNotesIndex

In Artificial Color, Catherine Keyser makes visible how race is constructed in American literature in the first half of the twentieth century through references to and depictions of food. Keyser's reading of well- and lesser known-as well as unpublished-texts is precise, engaging, and ultimately very satisfying.

Catherine Keyser is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and the author of Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture (Rutgers University Press 2010).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: "Purple Fluid, Carbon-Charged": Jean Toomer's Mutable MaterialsChapter 2: Genius in the Raw: The Schuyler Family and the Modern MulattaChapter 3: Eating Like a Local: Stein, Hemingway, and the Stakes of TerroirChapter 4: "A Beaker Full of the Warm South": The Fitzgeralds and Mediterranean InfusionsChapter 5: The Monstropolous Beast: Animacy and Industry in Zora Neale Hurston and Dorothy WestNotesIndex

In Artificial Color, Catherine Keyser makes visible how race is constructed in American literature in the first half of the twentieth century through references to and depictions of food. Keyser's reading of well- and lesser known-as well as unpublished-texts is precise, engaging, and ultimately very satisfying.