Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction
Summary: This publication draws on three related bodies of knowledge: crime fiction criticism, masculinity studies, and the cultural analysis of food and consumption practices from a critical eating studies perspective. In particular, this book focuses on food as an analytical category in the study of tough masculinity as represented in American hardboiled fiction. Through an examination of six American novels, this book comments on the gradual process of redefining consumption and consumerism in America, which traditionally has been coded as feminine. Usiekniewicz shows that food and eating also reflect power relations and larger social and economic structures connected to class, gender, geography, sexuality, and ability, to name just a few.
Type: Book
Author: Marta Usiekniewicz
Language: English
Link: access the publication by clicking here
Institution: American Studies Center, University of Warsaw
Date: 2023
