{"product_id":"stirring-the-pot-1","title":"Stirring the Pot","description":"\u003cp\u003e   The term \"domesticity\" may bring to mind cooking, cleaning, and tranquil evenings at home. During the last few decades, however, American domesticity has become ever more politicized as third-wave feminists, conservative critics, and others debate the very meaning of home and family. Despite this new wave of debate, the home, particularly the kitchen, is comfortable territory for the consolidation of issues of gender, space, marketplace, community, and technology in twentieth century literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   This work looks closely at a wide variety of southern domestic literature, focusing particularly on the role of the family kitchen as a driving force in the narratives of Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lee Smith, and Toni Morrison. Topics include the overtones of isolation and the almost claustrophobic third-person narration of Glasgow's \u003ci\u003eVirginia\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLife and Gabriella\u003c\/i\u003e; the communal kitchen and its role in defining the sexual discourse of Welty's \u003ci\u003eDelta Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e; the unification of national railway lines and its consequences for the traditional Appalachian kitchen in Smith's \u003ci\u003eOral History\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFair and Tender Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e; and the lasting effects of slavery on the \"haunted domesticity\" of the African-American kitchen in Morrison's \u003ci\u003eJazz, Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLove\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54233224577368,"sku":"9780786435234","price":36.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780786435234_cd8be84e-5830-414f-a11b-6eb963275a31.jpg?v=1764987336","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/stirring-the-pot-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}