Global Appetites

"This literary study explores how agribusiness, industrial agriculture, and countercultural food movements underpin modern American conceptions of global power"--

"Global Appetites explores how industrial agriculture and countercultural food movements underpin U.S. conceptions of global power in the century since the First World War. Allison Carruth's study centers on what she terms the "literature of food"--A body of work that comprises literary realism, late modernism, and magical realism along with culinary writing, food memoir, and advertising"--