ENG 3590 Literature and the Politics of Food

Although food is fundamental to survival, it is also political and at the heart of ritualized eating practices-from simple to ceremonial-that shape identity and define notions of community. This course explores the power and meaning of food within the broad contexts of social, cultural, political, and economic relations as expressed in literary and cultural texts. Students will explore the fraught relationship of food to class, race, caste, and gender issues and the varying aesthetic and narrative strategies used to illuminate these conflicts in literature, across comparative cultural contexts. This is a UCC 5 Civic Engagement course. This is a writing intensive course.
Credits: 3.0