Cookery : Food Rhetorics and Social Production (Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critque)

Conley, Donovan (EDT)/ Eckstein, Justin (EDT)

Univ of Alabama Pr（2020/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 159 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780817320492
• DDC分類 641.3001

Full Description

The rhetoric of contemporary food production and consumption with a focus on social boundaries.The rhetoric of food is more than just words about food, and food is more than just edible matter. Cookery:Food Rhetorics and Social Production explores how food mediates both rhetorical influence and material life through the overlapping concepts of invention and production. The classical canon of rhetorical invention entails the process of discovering one's persuasive appeals, whereas the contemporary landscape of agricultural production touches virtually everyone on the planet. Together, rhetoric and food shape the boundaries of shared living.The essays in this volume probe the many ways that food informs contemporary social life through its mediation of bodies - human and extra-human alike - in the forms of intoxication, addiction, estrangement, identification, repulsion, and eroticism. Our bodies, in turn, shape the boundaries of food through research, technology, cultural trends, and, of course, by talking about it.Each chapter explores food's persuasive nature through a unique prism that includes intoxication, dirt, "food porn," strange foods, and political "invisibility." In each case readers gain new insights about the relations between rhetorical influence and embodied practice through food. As a whole Cookery articulates new ways of viewing food's powers of persuasion, as well as the inherent role of persuasion in agricultural production.The purpose of Cookery, then, is to demonstrate the deep rhetoricity of our modern industrial food system through critical examinations of concepts, practices, and tendencies endemic to this system. Food has become an essential topic for discussions concerned with the larger social dynamics of production, distribution, access, reception, consumption, influence, and the fraught question of choice. These questions about food and rhetoric are equally questions about the assumptions, values, and practices of contemporary public life.

Contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: SoiledDonovan Conley and Justin Eckstein1. Brewing Influence: The Mixology of MoralsKatie Dickman and Nathaniel A. Rivers2. The Terroir and Topoi of the LowcountryAnna Marjorie Young and Justin Eckstein3. Food PornographyCasey R. Kelly4. Rhetorically Strange FoodsJeff Rice5. More than a MembraneDonovan ConleyAfterwordGreg DickinsonReferencesContributorsIndex