期刊名称：Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies
印刷版ISSN：1832-3898
电子版ISSN：1838-8310
出版年度：2013
卷号：9
期号：1
出版社：Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association (ACRAWSA)
摘要：RacialIndigestionpresents an argument for the ways in which food and eating have informed the political and racial identities of 19thcentury America. Tompkins weaves together images and ideas from a diverse range of different 19thcentury cultural texts to produce a narrative of how the literal, metaphorical and metonymical ways that eating, and its accompanying indigestion, produces a racialised, embodied dialogic between self and other. It is this tension and terror between the eater and the eaten that is a way of reflecting America's racial politics in this era, particularly in its threat to the fantasy of the autonomous and 'free' liberal individual
