African American food traditions
American culinary diversity
American Dream cultural analysis
American Dream literature
American Dream themes
American food history
American literature analysis
American myth and food
assimilation and food
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cookbooks and immigration
culinary identity
culinary narratives
cultural fusion in cuisine
cultural studies food
diaspora cuisine
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essays on food and literature
ethnic food traditions
food and aspiration
food and assimilation
food and belonging
food and community in literature
food and cultural adaptation
food and culture in literature
food and diaspora
food and displacement
food and ethnicity
food and generational identity
food and heritage
food and history in literature
food and home
food and hybridity
food and identity
food and identity in fiction
food and memory
food and national identity
food and nostalgia
food and power dynamics
food and representation in literature
food and resistance
food and social class
food and social identity
food and society
food and storytelling
food and the American dream
food and the good life
food as resistance
food culture
food in Beloved
food in Jews Without Money
food in literature
food in memoirs and novels
food in Stealing Buddha's Dinner
food in The Great Gatsby
food memoirs
food representation in fiction
food rituals
food symbolism in literature
food symbolism in novels
foodways in American literature
forthcoming
gastronomy and migration
immigrant cuisine
immigrant food entrepreneurs
immigrant food experiences
immigrant food narratives
immigrant narratives
interdisciplinary literary studies
kitchen as cultural space
literary analysis American Dream
literary criticism food themes
literary essays on food
literary food studies
multicultural food traditions
recipes and identity
regional American cuisines
transnational food narratives
Product details
- ISBN 9798895270813
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jun 2026
- Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This volume addresses the unique relationship between the American dream and the manifold ways in which food and food-related topics support and expand upon elements that constitute the American dream. The contributors discuss instances in which Americans of one heritage or another attempt to find freedom and fashion a life for themselves and a uniquely American identity. Through various forms of literature—novels, short stories, cookbooks, and memoirs—these essays explore the American Dream through a myriad of cultures, food, and their intertwined meanings.
Robert Hauhart is a professor in the Department of Society and Social Justice at St. Martin’s University in Lacey, Washington. He and Jeff Birkenstein have coedited six volumes of essays, including most recently Significant Food in American Literature. He is the author of The Lonely Quest: Constructing the Self in Twenty-First Century American Life and Seeking the American Dream: A Sociological Inquiry.
Jeff Birkenstein is a professor of English at Centralia College in Washington. He and Robert Hauhart have coedited six volumes of essays, including most recently Significant Food in American Literature. He is also coeditor, with Anna Froula and Karen Randell, of The Cinema of Terry Gilliam: It’s a Mad World.
Jeff Birkenstein is a professor of English at Centralia College in Washington. He and Robert Hauhart have coedited six volumes of essays, including most recently Significant Food in American Literature. He is also coeditor, with Anna Froula and Karen Randell, of The Cinema of Terry Gilliam: It’s a Mad World.
