Meat!

Sushmita Chatterjee is Associate Professor of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at Appalachian State University.Banu Subramaniam is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

“Meat is power, meat is politics. By expanding the definitional terrain of the word, the authors in this collection also reimagine the scope of food and animal studies and provide much-needed connective tissue (pun not intended) for future work in the field. This book is a game changer. Period.” - Sharon Patricia Holland, author of (The Erotic Life of Racism) “A new and provocative engagement with the material and symbolic dimensions of meat within a transnational frame, this collection exfoliates meat's various layers, not to uncover an essential truth, but to examine meat as a dynamic, multiple, and unstable category. It is less about what meat is than it is about what meat does. It is precisely this dimension that renders Meat! an important scholarly advance in cultural studies, food studies, and gender, women, queer, and feminist studies.” - Martin F. Manalansan IV, coeditor of (Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader) "In provocative and playful essays, diverse authors draw on established experts in such fields as colonial and postcolonial studies, transnational analysis, feminist science studies, queer theory, critical race theory, animal rights studies, and disability studies. . . . Most essays cross boundaries, too, in subject matter, disciplinary orientation, and methodology (such as moving from discursive to practical analysis), requiring proficiency with context-switching, making this both a challenging and rewarding read. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty." - S. M. Weiss (Choice) “Few books assemble critical writings from a transnational, intersectional, and postcolonial perspective. Meat! fills this gap.... Feminist scholars will no doubt find this edited volume useful and interesting.” - Élisabeth Abergel (Atlantis) “The uniqueness of Meat! resides in reuniting scholars, many of them working on regions outside the Euro-Western world, in order to provocatively push the boundaries of what ethical practices and lives entail.” - Valeria Meiller (ISLE)

• Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction. How to Think with Meat / Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam  11. When Fish Is Meat: Transnational Entanglements / Elspeth Probyn  172. Eating the Mother / Irina Aristarkhova  393. Reindeer and Woolly Mammoths: The Imperial Transit of Frozen Meat from the North American Arctic / Jennifer A. Hamilton  614. Beefing Yoga: Meat, Corporeality, and Politics / Sushmita Chatterjee  965. Eating after Chernobyl: Slow Violence and Reindeer Consumption in the Postnuclear Age / Anita Mannur  1216. Romancing the Pig: A Queer Crip Tale from Barbeque to Xenotransplantation / Kim Q. Hall  1397. On Being Meat: Three Parables on Sacrifice and Violence / Parama Roy  1628. "I Hide in Plain Sight": Food and Black Masculinity in Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad / Psyche Williams-Forson  1949. On Phooka: Beef, Milk, and the Framing of Animal Cruelty in Late Colonial Bengal / Neel Ahuja  21310. Fake Meat: A Queer Commentary / Angela Willey  24111. The Ethical Impurative: Elemental Frontiers of Technologized Meat / Banu Subramaniam  25412. Fire and Ash / Mel Y. Chen  279About the Contributors  293Index  293