The Harlequin Eaters

"Investigating how the alimentary harlequin evolved in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Harlequin Eaters offers fascinating background to today's problems of food inequity as it unpacks stories of the for-profit recycling of excess food across class and race divisions. Superimposing figurations of the edible harlequin taken from a broad array of popular media, Janet Beizer examines representations not only of food but also of the marginalized people-the "harlequin eaters"-who consume it"--