Hearty and happy and with a lively, yeasty soul
Feeling right in Louisa May Alcott'sThe Candy Country
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4516882 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kyla Wazana Tompkins (0000-0002-0327-7887) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 153-166 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women & Performance a journal of feminist theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0740-770X • E-ISSN: 1748-5819 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0740770x.2014.976505 |
| OpenAlex | W2013204376 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article discusses a short story by Louisa May Alcott in which a young white girl is transported into three parallel worlds: Candy Land, Cake Land and Bread Land. This article argues that Alcott uses these three food nations to both portray the history of US imperial exceptionalism and also to trace out a biopolitical imperative through which whiteness is granted the right to live on, while blackness is instrumentalized in the service of white survival. More unusually, in this story, Alcott explores the fermentative qualities of yeast to depict the unequally distributed and yet biologically universal sensation of living “right” within an affective-biopolitical order
Aesthetics · Art · Economics · Epistemology · Exceptionalism · Feeling · Girl · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Soul · White (mutation · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Law · Philosophy · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |