ABSTRACT

What are the conceptual, cultural, and economic stakes involved in thinking literature and foodways as intertwined? Theorizing food in this way fosters an interdisciplinary, intersectional approach that pays careful attention to the cultural and material pathways through which food is produced, consumed, symbolized, and invested with meaning. Scrutinizing the ideological and material underpinnings of culinary practices allows us to better appreciate food’s figurative richness and contribution to the making, unmaking, and remaking of French culture and socio-political relations. The introduction to this Special Issue reviews recent efforts in the field of Food Studies to advance such an analysis and situates the primary lines of inquiry taken up in this volume in relation to the critical frameworks that inform them. What the articles gathered here demonstrate is that acts of eating, as well as the depiction of food in art and history, both shape and are shaped by racialized and gendered power dynamics, affective investments and attachments, and economic inequities. Xenophilia and xenophobia, exoticism and repulsion are intimately connected; both modalities abstract and flatten the foodstuffs and creative capacities of the non-European. A key question that emerges in this issue is, then: How might we build better modes of conviviality, of eating together and living together well?

摘要

认为文学和饮食方式交织在一起的概念、文化和经济利益是什么？以这种方式对食物进行理论化促进了一种跨学科、交叉的方法，该方法密切关注食物生产、消费、象征和赋予意义的文化和物质途径。仔细审视烹饪实践的意识形态和物质基础，可以让我们更好地理解食物的丰富性以及对法国文化和社会政治关系的形成、破坏和再造的贡献。本期特刊的介绍回顾了食品研究领域最近为推进此类分析所做的努力，并将本卷中涉及的主要调查线索与为它们提供信息的关键框架相关联。这里收集的文章表明，饮食行为以及艺术和历史中对食物的描述，都塑造了种族化和性别化的权力动态、情感投资和依恋以及经济不平等。仇外和仇外，异国情调和排斥是密切相关的；这两种方式都抽象和扁平化了非欧洲人的食物和创造能力。在这个问题中出现的一个关键问题是：我们如何建立更好的欢乐模式，一起吃饭和一起生活？异国情调和排斥是密切相关的；这两种方式都抽象和扁平化了非欧洲人的食物和创造能力。那么，在这个问题中出现的一个关键问题是：我们如何才能建立更好的欢乐模式，一起吃饭和一起生活？异国情调和排斥是密切相关的；这两种方式都抽象和扁平化了非欧洲人的食物和创造能力。那么，在这个问题中出现的一个关键问题是：我们如何才能建立更好的欢乐模式，一起吃饭和一起生活？