Author: Sophie Gee
In “The Barbarous Feast,” Sophie Gee argues that novels and eating rituals were interconnected, but conflicting, systems used to depict selfhood and represent personal inwardness in colonial Europe, the Americas, and Australia.
Gee tells a vibrant story of how people living at the margins of colonial power drew upon eating and writing to manage their own interior lives.
She coins the term “metabolic subjectivity” to describe the idea of energetic, embodied selfhood that is made by eating and drinking and which connects humans to other living species.
