Food in American Culture and Literature

Places at the Table

Edited By: Carl Boon, Nuray Önder, Evrim Ersöz Koç

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Carving a unique space in food studies, these multifaceted essays blend cultural analysis with history and sociology. These cultural critiques force the reader to consider what food means, and will mean, in the United States.

Carving a unique space within the burgeoning field of food studies, the essays gathered in this volume position themselves at a variety of flashpoints along…

Carving a unique space within the burgeoning field of food studies, the essays gathered in this volume position themselves at a variety of flashpoints along the spectrum of cultural and literary analysis. While some remain firmly entrenched in traditional genre analysis, some extend toward history and sociology, giving this collection a multifaceted perspective. The finest of these essays stand as cultural critiques, forcing the reader to consider what food means (and will mean) in the United States.

Carl Boon is the author of the full-length collection Places and Names: Poems (2019). His poems have appeared in many journals and magazines, including Prairie Schooner, Posit, and The Maine Review. He received his PhD in Twentieth-Century American Literature from Ohio University in 2007, and currently teaches courses in American culture and literature at Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey.

Nuray Önder graduated from the English Literature and Language Department of Hacettepe University, Turkey, in 1974, and received her MA and PhD from Ege University, Turkey, in 1985 and 1996 respectively. She currently teaches at the Department of American Culture and Literature of Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey. Her research interests include American history, regionalism, and American realism.

Evrim Ersöz Koç works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey. She received her PhD with a dissertation on the representations of the apocalypse in the contemporary American drama. Her research interests and publications focus on American drama and American cinema.