Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century by Kyla Wazana Tompkins

Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century

Kyla Wazana Tompkins

275 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
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The act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes the object being eaten. At the same time, eating performs a kind of vulnerability to the world, revealing a fundamental interdependence between the eater and that which exists ou...

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