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Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales

Alexander L Kaufman editor Penny Vlagopoulos editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:30th Sep '20

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This collection of scholarly essays presents new work from an emerging line of inquiry: modern outlaw narratives and the textual and cultural relevance of food and feasting. Food, its preparation and its consumption, is presented in outlaw narratives as central points of human interaction, community, conflict, and fellowship. Feast scenes perform a wide variety of functions, serving as cultural repositories of manners and behaviors, catalysts for adventure, or moments of regrouping and redirecting narratives. The book argues that modern outlaw narratives illuminate a potent cross-cultural need for freedom, solidarity, and justice, and it examines ways in which food and feasting are often used to legitimate difference, create discord, and manipulate power dynamics.

ISBN: 9780367660680

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 380g

198 pages