The Edible Complex
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>     La Fusta, the digital journal of Italian Studies edited by the graduate students of the Italian Department at Rutgers University, is now welcoming submissions (in English or Italian).
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>         The Spring 2017 issue will focus on “The Edible Complex” to enrich the discussion and examination of who we are, if we are what we eat. Gastronomy is a component of the widespread tendency to construct differences. In fact, a complex gastronomy lies behind food habits and contributes to the production of national, regional, and local identities, and socioeconomic differences.
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>          We expect that your passion for food and literature produce the perfect blend of ingredients needed to inspire stimulating writing and encourage poets, artists, cooks and scholars of all backgrounds to contribute a paper that explores the multifaceted ways food is represented in the arts. We also welcome a paper that assesses the historical and contemporary food trends across the globe.
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>            Please refer to the criticism and theory of Barthes, Freud, Bemporat, Dickie, Fischler, Mazzoni, Montanari, Patnaik, and Scully, among many others in your exploration.
>         Topics and approaches may include, but are not restricted to:
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> ·      the artistic, cinematic, historical, and literary representations of food
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> ·      feast and famine
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> ·      excess and scarcity of food
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> ·      food as social divide and unifier
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> ·      consumption as survival and sustenance
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> ·      addiction, desire, manipulation, and worship
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> ·      migration, postcolonial theory
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> ·      natural disasters, geographic seclusion
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> ·      national identity, cosmopolitanism
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> ·      ecocriticism, environmental studies
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> ·      gender studies; queer theory
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>         Contributions should be anonymous and authors should remove all traces of their identity. Please, send submissions (subject title “La Fusta: The Edible Complex”) with a separate cover letter (university affiliation, bio, etc.) to [email protected]