Eating America: Crisis, Sustenance, Sustainability

This volume of essays examines the relationship between eating and crisis. The United States long-lasting economic and cultural hegemony raises a number of questions: Has America been literally and metaphorically eating, appropriating, exploiting, and molding the world in its own image, or has it been eaten, appropriated, and exploited as a (frequently criticized or disdained) source of ideas, ideology, and knowledge? What is the relation between the current ecological crisis and Americas consumerist economy, with its practices of food production and consumption, and its use of natural resources? What is Americas role in the ongoing crisis of modernity? And, if the crisis continues, where are the sources of sustenance?