BOOK TALK | Nathalie Cooke and Shelley Boyd- Canadian Literary Fare

DETAILS AND REGISTRATION:

Join Nathalie Cooke and Shelley Boyd for the Green College Special Lecture. A reception will follow the lecture.

More details:

https://greencollege.ubc.ca/civicrm/event/info%3Fid%3D1589%26reset%3D1

Location:

Coach House, Green College, UBC, and livestreamed

Nathalie Cooke is professor of English at McGill University and founding editor of CuiZine: The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures.

Shelley Boyd is dean of the Faculty of Arts at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and author of Garden Plots: Canadian Women Writers and Their Literary Gardens.

about the book

In Canadian Literary Fare Nathalie Cooke and Shelley Boyd explore food voices in a wide range of Canadian fiction, drama, and poetry, drawing from their formational blog series with Alexia Moyer. Thirteen short vignettes delve into metaphorical taste sensations, telling of how single ingredients such as garlic or ginger, or food items such as butter tarts or bannock, can pack a hefty symbolic punch in literary contexts. A chapter on Canada’s public markets finds literary food voices sounding a largely positive note, just as Canadian journalists trumpet Canada’s bountiful and diverse foodways. But in chapters on literary representations of bison and Kraft Dinner, Cooke and Boyd bear witness to narratives of hunger, food scarcity, and social inequality with poignancy and insistence.