The Negotiation of Vegetarianism as a Remedy for an American Sociocultural Schizophrenia in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals

dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage113en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage133en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume8en_US
dc.contributor.authorBeck, Michaela
dc.contributor.editorBozkurt, Deniz
dc.contributor.editorConte, Ronaldo
dc.contributor.editorHerrmann, Sebastian M.
dc.contributor.editorKittler, Katharina-Luise
dc.contributor.editorMittag, Lisa
dc.contributor.editorRaviraj-Steinhagen, Rinilda
dc.contributor.editorRieß, Amelie
dc.contributor.editorRozhkova, Margarita
dc.contributor.editorvan den Berg, Elena
dc.contributor.editorWilke, Miriam
dc.contributor.editorWöll, Steffen Adrian
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-26T08:55:28Z
dc.date.available2022-10-26T08:55:28Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractReading Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals with a particular emphasis on the narrative dimension and rhetoric of the text, this article analyzes how Foer’s book employs the issue of vegetarianism to reveal and remedy a perceived condition of ‘American sociocultural schizophrenia’ in the context of modern-day factory farming. In particular, it pays attention to the psychological mechanisms involved in the process of meat consumption. The paper makes visible how Eating Animals employs the narrator’s story of achieving a sense of mental wholeness and unity through vegetarianism as a template for the larger state of disconnectedness and alienation with respect to American society and culture. Additionally, it is demonstrated how Foer’s text taps into the rhetoric of the American jeremiad in its discussion of vegetarianism in the face of modern-day factory farming to offer this diet as a potential and practical remedy for a perceived state of ‘American sociocultural schizophrenia.’ In doing so, the article aims to point to the implications of the entailed invocation of American values and identity in the global context of shifting and changing relations of power and identity.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.54465/aspeers.08-09
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2533
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.issn18658768en_US
dc.relation.journalaspeersen_US
dc.relation.journalaltemerging voices in american studiesen_US
dc.rightsL::CC BY 3.0en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:810en_US
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldliterarystudiesen_US
dc.titleThe Negotiation of Vegetarianism as a Remedy for an American Sociocultural Schizophrenia in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animalsen_US
dc.typearticleen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
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