Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System

Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System

Oloff, Kerstin; Niblett, Michael; Campbell, Chris

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

08/2022

268

Mole

Inglês

9783030761578

15 a 20 dias

369

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1. Introduction: Plotting the Crisis-World-Literature, World-Culture, and the World-Food-System.- Part I Imperial Appetites and the Development of the World-Food-System.- 2. Eat Meat Crave Repeat: H. Rider Haggard, Lost World Romance and the Global Growth of Britain's Meat Markets.- 3. Pain, Pleasure, and the World-Food-System: Plotting the Afterlife of the Plantation in the Poetry of Grace Nichols.- 4. "The Landscape Heaved with Unspeakable Terror": The Weird Presence of the World-Food-System in the Cultural Imaginaries of England and the Caribbean.- Part II Cash-Crops and Agricultural Monarchs.- 5. Laurie Lee in Cyprus: Scripting Propaganda, Productivity, and Peasant Labour.- 6. Plants in the Free World Garden: Revolution and Rice in Thai Literature.- 7. Fleeing Ilex Paraguariensis: Yerba Mate Plantations in Horacio Quiroga and Augusto Roa Bastos.- 8. "To win the energies of intoxication for the revolution": Dialectical Aesthetics in Miguel Angel Asturias' Banana Trilogy (1950-1960).- Part III Consumed by Crisis.- 9. Alimentary Gothic: Horror, Puerto Rico and the World-Food-System.- 10. Made in Cod's Image: Food, Fuel, and World-Ecological Decline in Michael Crummey's Sweetland.- 11. White Flight from Planet Earth: Reading Race, Cheap Food, and Capitalism's Crisis State in Interstellar.
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Literature and Economics;Literature and the Environment;Material Culture;Food System;Food Production;climate crisis;Food Security;world ecology;food regimes;world culture;world food system