When Good Food Goes Bad: Food, Race, and Gender in Southern Literature
Location
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
Presentation Type
Panel Discussion
Start Date
2-10-2015 11:00 AM
Description
While we often think of food as a source of sustenance and communion, it can also be a source of disenfranchisement and alienation. Three Belmont English majors will consider how the relationships to food reflect gender and racial constructions as well as the politics of power. Taylor Herald will look at how food is used to punish and dehumanize slaves in Charles W. Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grapevine”; Alex Mitchell will consider how food damages Joe Christmas’ gender and racial identity in William Faulkner’s Light in August; and Rachel Bryan will consider the sexual politics associated with food in Faulkner’s The Hamlet.
Recommended Citation
Herald, Taylor; Mitchell, Alex; and Bryan, Rachel, "When Good Food Goes Bad: Food, Race, and Gender in Southern Literature" (2015). Humanities Symposium. 9.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2015/2015/9
When Good Food Goes Bad: Food, Race, and Gender in Southern Literature
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
While we often think of food as a source of sustenance and communion, it can also be a source of disenfranchisement and alienation. Three Belmont English majors will consider how the relationships to food reflect gender and racial constructions as well as the politics of power. Taylor Herald will look at how food is used to punish and dehumanize slaves in Charles W. Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grapevine”; Alex Mitchell will consider how food damages Joe Christmas’ gender and racial identity in William Faulkner’s Light in August; and Rachel Bryan will consider the sexual politics associated with food in Faulkner’s The Hamlet.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Academic Lecture