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This chapter introduces readers to the overall themes and scope of the volume and provides an analysis of the keywords around which its arguments are organized. The first section details the rise of the world-food-system, setting this in the context of the development of the modern world-economy (understood as simultaneously a world-ecology) and outlining how we understand its relationship to world-literature and world-culture. The second section surveys the current field of literary food studies and historicizes the recent surge of interest in the cultural registration of foodways. The final section explains the rationale for the volume’s structure and briefly summarizes the individual chapters.
The critics write the canon
The bankers bring the famine
There will always be
A little crumb for you and me
—The Felice Brothers, “Lion”
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Campbell, C., Niblett, M., Oloff, K. (2021). Introduction: Plotting the Crisis—World-Literature, World-Culture, and the World-Food-System. In: Campbell, C., Niblett, M., Oloff, K. (eds) Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System. Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76155-4_1
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