Catherine Keyser, "Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions" (Oxford UP, 2019)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast · Jul 15, 2019 · 1h 14m

In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks with Catherine Keyser about early twentieth century fiction and the role that modern food plays in literature as a language for talking about race and racial categories. In Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions, published in 2019 by Oxford University Press, Keyser explores the ways that modern fiction writers responded to the theories and anxieties about race in the early twentieth century through related anxieties about modern industrial food. In each chapter, Keyser focuses on a few closely related authors and texts, linked by their…