Eating Bodies in the 19th Century
by
Kyla Wazana Tompkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
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 outside her body. Racial Indigestion explores the links...