{"product_id":"alimentary-orientalism-yin-yuan-9781684484676","title":"Alimentary Orientalism: Britain's Literary Imagination and the Edible East","description":"What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? \u003ci\u003eAlimentary Orientalism \u003c\/i\u003ereassesses the politics of Orientalist representation by examining the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses sparked by these commodities transformed the period's literary Orientalism and created surprisingly self-reflexive ways through which British writers encountered and imagined cultural otherness. Tracing exotic ingestion as a motif across a range of authors and genres, this book considers how, why, and whither writers used scenes of eating, drinking, and smoking to diagnose and interrogate their own solipsistic constructions of the Orient. As national and cultural boundaries became increasingly porous, such self-reflexive inquiries into the nature and role of otherness provided an unexpected avenue for British imperial subjectivity to emerge and coalesce.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yin Yuan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1684484677\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781684484676\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bucknell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 6.06w x 0.87d","brand":"Yin Yuan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44079250637055,"sku":"9781684484676","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_316a0320-83ce-4de7-8c7c-8cec1685d62c.jpg?v=1685480052","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/alimentary-orientalism-yin-yuan-9781684484676","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}