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Description of  Leftovers: Eating, Drinking and Re-thinking with Case Studies from Post-war French Fiction (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 67)

1789620678 pdf Eating and drinking are essential to survival. Yet for human animals, they are intrinsically ambivalent, proliferating with ideological, historical and psychological leftovers. This study reveals and mobilizes the provisional meanings, repressed experiences and unacknowledged tensions bound up with representations of food, drink and their consumption. It creates a flexible critical framework by bringing together an unexploited convergence of post-war French thinkers who use or whose thought is legible through figures of eating and drinking, including Barthes, Bataille, Beauvoir, Bourdieu, Certeau, Cixous, Derrida, Fischler, Giard, Kristeva, Lacan, Lefebvre, Lvi-Strauss, Mayol and Sartre. New combinations emerge for elucidating the intersecting effects of incorporation constructs of class, gender and racial difference bad faith distinction secondary ideological signifying systems provisional meanings bound up with linguistic traces economies of excess everyday making-do the ethics of consuming the other the return of the repressed lack abjection and notions of eating on the sly, mothers milk, the omnivores paradox and gastro-anomie. Read more