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Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales

Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales

Kaufman, Alexander L.
Vlagopoulos, Penny

Hardcover

Series: Outlaws in Literature, History, and Culture

General World HistoryTrue Crime

ISBN10: 0367183897
ISBN13: 9780367183899
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 5 2019
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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