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American tantalus : horizons, happiness, and the impossible pursuits of US literature and culture
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ISBN: 1501319620 1628927135 1623568102 9781623568108 9781628920017 1628920017 9781623561079 1623561078 9781628927139 1322145164 9781501319624 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic,

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"American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists, however, mislead. Just as most US dictionaries have in fact long recognised tantalise's origins in The Odyssey, so they have defined it as the unique desire we feel for objects that (like the fruit and water once cruelly placed before Tantalus) lie within our reach yet withdraw from our attempts to touch them. On these terms, American Tantalus shows, tantalise not only describes a particular kind of thwarted desire, but also one that dominates modern US fiction to a remarkable extent. For this term specifically evokes the yearning to touch alienated or virginal objects that we find examined by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Cade Bambara, Richard Wright and Toni Morrison; and it also indicates the insatiable pursuit of the horizon so important to Willa Cather and Edith Wharton among others. This eclectic canon indeed "prefers" the dictionary to the thesaurus: unreachable destinations and untouched commodities here indeed tantalise, inviting gestures of inquiry from which they then recoil. This focus, while lodging cycles of tantalisation at the very heart of American myth, holds profound implications for our understanding of modernity, and, in particular, of the cultural genesis of the commodity as a form."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


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How the shopping cart explains global consumerism
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ISBN: 9780520968097 0520968093 9780520295285 0520295285 9780520295292 0520295293 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oakland, California

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Picture a familiar scene: long lines of shoppers waiting to check out at the grocery store, carts filled to the brim with the week's food. While many might wonder what is in each cart, Andrew Warnes implores us to consider the symbolism of the cart itself. In his inventive new book, Warnes examines how the everyday shopping cart is connected to a complex web of food production and consumption that has spread from the United States throughout the world. Today, shopping carts represent choice and autonomy for consumers, a recognizable American way of life that has become a global phenomenon. This succinct and and accessible book provides an excellent overview of consumerism and the globalization of American culture.


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Savage barbecue
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ISBN: 1283031302 9786613031303 0820340189 9780820340180 9780820328966 0820328960 9780820331096 0820331090 Year: 2008 Publisher: Athens, Ga. University of Georgia Press

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How the Shopping Cart Explains Global Consumerism
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ISBN: 0520968093 Year: 2019 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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Picture a familiar scene: long lines of shoppers waiting to check out at the grocery store, carts filled to the brim with the week's food. While many might wonder what is in each cart, Andrew Warnes implores us to consider the symbolism of the cart itself. In his inventive new book, Warnes examines how the everyday shopping cart is connected to a complex web of food production and consumption that has spread from the United States throughout the world. Today, shopping carts represent choice and autonomy for consumers, a recognizable American way of life that has become a global phenomenon. This succinct and and accessible book provides an excellent overview of consumerism and the globalization of American culture.

Hunger overcome ? : food and resistance in twentieth-century African American literature
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ISBN: 0820325627 0820325295 Year: 2004 Publisher: Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press,

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