English 2880.107
Culinary Encounters of the Other Kind: Food and Otherness
TR 11:40-12:55
7601
Instructor: Brianna Thompson
Campus mail: English Department, 250 Goldwin Smith Hall
Email: bt298@cornell.edu
| What does it mean to say you're hungry for something? This course explores the joyful and the dark sides of eating and traces how food informs the ways in which we ingest the world, particularly the parts of it unfamiliar to us. We will consider how the meeting of food, word, and image inform larger social categories and reflect on the way food affects how we think about others, putting it in conversation with literature, art, current events, film, imperialism, and history. Possible texts include Monique Truong's The Book of Salt, art by Kara Walker, Kyla Wazana Tompkins' Racial Indigestion, the Iroquois White Corn Project, fiction by Chimamanda Adiche, The Search for General Tso, Greek myths, and Rabindranath Tagore's "Hungry Stones." |
