Book contents
- Food and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Food and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Developments
- Chapter 7 Visceral Encounters
- Chapter 8 The Ethics of Eating Together
- Chapter 9 Eating Athwart and Queering Food Writing
- Chapter 10 Utilizing Food Studies with Children’s Literature and Its Scholarship
- Chapter 11 Avant-Garde Food Writing, Modernist Cuisine
- Chapter 12 Comic Books and the Culinary Logic of Late Capitalism
- Part III Applications
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Concepts (continued from page iii)
- References
Chapter 9 - Eating Athwart and Queering Food Writing
from Part II - Developments
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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
- Part II Developments
- Chapter 7 Visceral Encounters
- Chapter 8 The Ethics of Eating Together
- Chapter 9 Eating Athwart and Queering Food Writing
- Chapter 10 Utilizing Food Studies with Children’s Literature and Its Scholarship
- Chapter 11 Avant-Garde Food Writing, Modernist Cuisine
- Chapter 12 Comic Books and the Culinary Logic of Late Capitalism
- Part III Applications
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Concepts (continued from page iii)
- References
Summary
In this chapter I seek to queer the genre of food writing, to render it athwart. I explore the writing of MFK Fisher who I argue who lets us see how food writing reveals and produces the full force of what Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari call “the obligatory, necessary, or permitted interminglings of bodies”. These bodies – texts, descriptions of food, feeding and eating, render messy any distinction between and among them. This calls forth a style of writing that seeks not the comfort of an identity in food but rather revels in what food can unleash. Drawing on EK Sedgwick’s understanding of queer as athwart, I argue that food writing has the potential to make present the materiality of eating, writing and food and exemplify the always attendant “cruel optimism” (Berlant) of those pairings.
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