Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System
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| Summary: | X, 268 p. 1 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021. |
| Series: | Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76155-4 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 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 Ángel 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.