Racial Indigestion is a book about food, sex, race and how they all became intertwined in the nineteenth-century United States. It is my first book, and will be published on July 30, 2012, by New York University Press. Kyla Wazana Tompkins is an Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies at Pomona College, and a former food writer and restaurant critic. I write about food, eating, sexuality, race and nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, culture, film and dance.
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At the American Studies Association party for the Long Nineteenth Century book series, of which I am a part, Racial Indigestion sold out! Thanks to NYU Press for hosting the party, especially Eric Zinner, editor extraordinaire, pictured here. The conference discount for NYU is still available on the website with the code AMSA12.
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Above is a picture of morcilla, a kind of blood sausage made in Puerto Rico. The idea of innards, guts and offal is central to one of my upcoming projects, a co-edited special issue of GLQ: The Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, entitled On The Visceral. The cfp has its own tumblr here. Please visit: the deadline for abstracts is February 15th.
Just a little amuse-bouche: the table of contents, here, at the NYU Press website.
The introduction to Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in The Nineteenth Century lays out the fundamentals of my argument and the outline of the chapters. You can find it here.
A few months ago the latest scandal related to an image that I have spent quite a few years researching and writing about - the African or African-American body as an edible object exploded into the media. The New York University Press blog On The Square asked me to contribute a piece, which is linked above.
