Read My Plate

Deborah R. Geis is professor of English at DePauw University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter One. The Hungry Yawp: Eating and Orality in Whitman and Ginsberg Chapter Two. The Politics of Gluttony in Second-Generation Holocaust LiteratureChapter Three. Chukla Bukla: Cooking, Bengali-Indian-Anglo-American Writers, and the Merging of Cultures Chapter Four. Feeding the Audience: Food, Feminism, and Performance ArtChapter Five. The Last Black Man’s Fried Chicken: Soul Food, Memory, and African American Culinary Writing Chapter Six. Cooking Up a Storm: Recent Food Memoirs and the Angry DaughterChapter Seven. Eat and Run: Food Writing, Masculinity, and the “Male Midlife Crisis”Chapter Eight. School Lunch: Bicultural Conflicts in Asian-American Women’s Food MemoirsConclusionBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Deborah R. Geis expands our understanding of the literature of food, both in terms of genre and of methods to approach a portion of food writing. Her delicate explication of food memoir and performance art through lenses of gender, race, and migration melds with treatment of more traditional texts of fiction and poetry to yield a deeply empathetic contemplation about food’s personal and political resonance.