Book contents
- Food and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Food and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Chapter 1 Commensality
- Chapter 2 The Drive-Thru Supermarket
- Chapter 3 Gothic Vegetarianism
- Chapter 4 Good Taste, Good Food, and the Gastronome
- Chapter 5 The Art of the Recipe
- Chapter 6 Existential Disgust and the Food of the Philosopher
- Part II Developments
- Part III Applications
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Concepts (continued from page iii)
- References
Chapter 2 - The Drive-Thru Supermarket
Shopping Carts and the Foodscapes of American Literature
from Part I - Origins
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Book contents
- Food and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Food and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Chapter 1 Commensality
- Chapter 2 The Drive-Thru Supermarket
- Chapter 3 Gothic Vegetarianism
- Chapter 4 Good Taste, Good Food, and the Gastronome
- Chapter 5 The Art of the Recipe
- Chapter 6 Existential Disgust and the Food of the Philosopher
- Part II Developments
- Part III Applications
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Concepts (continued from page iii)
- References
Summary
The chapter argues that, while leading critiques of the supermarket often treat them as smooth and sinister systems of control, leading US literary accounts are likelier to emphasise the glitches, failures and petty frustrations of this familiar suburban foodscape. Reflecting this discrepancy, Ginsberg, Jarrell and others also call attention not only to the gleaming and vibrant commodities to be chosen from the supermarket shelf but also to the clattering functionality of the borrowed cart which then hold these choices before presenting them to the checkout. These writers, I suggest, attribute to such carts a different mode of walking, quite unlike the leisurely strolling of earlier or fin de siècle modes of shopping. A new and anxious need to return home instead underpins movement in the supermarket as these writers represent it, and this new compulsion becomes associated in their work with their failure occupy the
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